Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: APKOm, 750 DPI, TIFF, Copy Negative, 42.6 Mb

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Image ID: APKO

Credit:

by Smith (William M.)
Date:

1865.08
Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.
Equipment:

Barbette carriage (center pintle-iron); bayonet; cannon; handspike wrench; long gun; Parrott Rifle gun; Parrott shell; rammer staff; scabbard; sword
Locations & Lines:

District of Columbia; Fort Totten (Washington DC); Washington DC
Military Units:

3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery; 3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery (Company A); 3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery (Company B); US Army
Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: District of Columbia. Officers of Companies A and B, 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and crew of 100-pdr. Parrott gun on iron barbette carriage at Fort Totten.

Etched onto negative: No. 1 [crossed out]. 100 lb Parrot Gun Fort Totten Aug’t 1865. WMS. No. 681.

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