Photographic War History. The War For The Union. 1861-1865. No. 6705. Powder Magazine on the Lines. this view gives a good idea of how the ammunition was protected in the forts and batteries along the lines; first a room is built of heavy logs spiked together, then the logs are covered with earth to a thickness sufficient to prevent a shell from penetrating to the magazine. the basket works, “gabions,” are filled with earth and place around the entrance to prevent the earth from caving in if a shell explodes on the magazine. Thus protected it is rarely that a magazine is exploded. [Taylor & Huntington stereo card]
Library of Congress says: Fort Brady, Va. Entrance to magazine.
Anthony No. 2705.
Etched onto negative: 2705.
