Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: ARAUm, 750 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 42 Mb

Image ID: ARAU

Credit:	by Smith (William M.)
Date:	1865.08
Negative Size:	8 in. x 10 in.
Equipment:	12-pounder Napoleon gun; cannon; field carriage; handspike (wood); limber; sponge and rammer staff
Locations & Lines:	Fort Totten (Washington DC); Washington DC; District of Columbia
Military Units:	3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery; US Army
Sources:	Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: District of Columbia. Sergeants of 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, with gun and caisson at Fort Totten.

The MOLLUS Collection says: Sergeants of 3rd Mass. Heavy Artillery. Fort Totten, August, 1865.

Etched onto negative: 157 [crossed out]. Sergts 3rd Mass Hy Arty at Brass Gun Fort Totten No. 1 Augt 1865. WMS. No. 687.