Image ID: ALOA

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1865

Negative Size:

stereo

Equipment:

cannon; Howitzer gun; Parrott Rifle gun; Parrott shell; rammer staff; siege carriage; sponge staff

Locations & Lines:

Charleston harbor; Charleston SC; Fort Gregg (Morris Island SC); Fort Putnam (Morris Island SC); Morris Island SC; South Carolina

Military Units:

CS Army; US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress; University of South Carolina; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Photographic History. The War For The Union. War Views. No. 3481. Interior view of Ft. Putnam, Charleston Harbor, S. C. Showing a battery of 42 pound guns. [Anthony Co. stereo card]

Library of Congress says: Morris Island, S.C. Battery of 100-pdr. Parrott guns inside Fort Putnam.

The MOLLUS collection says: 42-pounders.

Anthony No. 3481.

Etched onto negative: 3481.

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