Savannah Ga. vicinity. Army engineers removing 8-inch Columbiad gun from Fort McAll – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Savannah Ga. vicinity. Army engineers removing 8-inch Columbiad gun from Fort McAll, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Savannah Ga. vicinity. Army engineers removing 8-inch Columbiad gun from Fort McAll
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Army engineers are shown hauling an 8-inch Columbiad, a large smoothbore muzzle-loading cannon, from Fort McAllister, a Confederate earthwork on the Ogeechee River south of Savannah. The fort guarded the river approach to the city until Union forces under General William T. Sherman overran it in December 1864, at the close of his march to the sea, and the victors then stripped its heavy guns. Because the picture was made as a stereograph, its two near-identical halves were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave viewers at home a convincing sense of depth and the weight of the equipment being moved.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0715 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Artillery (Weaponry) Forts & fortifications. Shermans March to the Sea.United States--Georgia--Savannah. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,274 × 1,342 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46168 |
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