Image ID: ABOB

Credit:

by Browne (William F.)

Date:

1865.05

Negative Size:

5 in. x 10 in. stereo

Equipment:

Armstrong shell; Blakely shell; cannon; Coehorn mortar; field carriage; handbarrow; handspike (wood); Howitzer gun; lantern; limber; mortar; Parrott Rifle gun; Parrott shell; Columbiad gun; solid shot; Whitworth shot

Locations & Lines:

Appomattox River; Broadway Landing VA; Virginia

Military Units:

US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

View of Confederate Water Batteries on James River. No. 1075. Ordnance Depot at Broadway Landing. Ordnance awaiting shipment: Mountain Howitzer, captured from U.S. Cavalry, and recaptured at Petersburg; eight inch Columbiad (Confederate) used on Petersburg Heights; Armstrong’s, Blackley’s [sic], and Whitworth’s projectiles on hand barrow, captured at Fort Fisher, N.C.; U.S. Howitzer’s on left which repulsed Confederate assault on Redoubt Dutton, June 1864; U.S. Navy gun captured at Fort Clifton. [Gardner Co. stereo card]

Gardner No. 1075.

Etched onto negative: No. 2.