. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . BIG GUNS NEAR RICHMOND. FORT DARLING JAMES RIVER The narrow reach of the James is swept in liotli direetious by the gun in the upper picture—a large Brooke rifle, made at the TredegarIron Works in the Confederate Capital. The gun below is a Columbiad with Brooke reenforcement. It is mounted within Fort Darling,and points down the James toward Chafiins Bluff, \-isible beyond the bend to the left. DrewTys Bluff commanded this portion ofthe river so completely that it was chosen as the site of the first hastily constructed defenses of
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . BIG GUNS NEAR RICHMOND. FORT DARLING JAMES RIVER The narrow reach of the James is swept in liotli direetious by the gun in the upper picture—a large Brooke rifle, made at the TredegarIron Works in the Confederate Capital. The gun below is a Columbiad with Brooke reenforcement. It is mounted within Fort Darling,and points down the James toward Chafiins Bluff, \-isible beyond the bend to the left. DrewTys Bluff commanded this portion ofthe river so completely that it was chosen as the site of the first hastily constructed defenses of Richmond in 1862, and was subsequentlyso strengthened as to be almost impregnable. The guns there mounted remained the guardians closest to the Capit-al on the Jamesuntil the withdrawal of Lee with his renuiant of the Ariiiv of Northern ^irginia from Petersburg rendered them useless in 1865.
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