Fort Monroe Va. The Lincoln Gun a 15-inch Rodman Columbiad – Vintage Photo 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: Fort Monroe Va. The Lincoln Gun a 15-inch Rodman Columbiad, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Fort Monroe Va. The Lincoln Gun a 15-inch Rodman Columbiad
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The subject here is the "Lincoln Gun," a 15-inch Rodman columbiad mounted at Fort Monroe, the Union stronghold on Old Point Comfort at the mouth of Hampton Roads, Virginia. Designed by Army ordnance officer Thomas Rodman, these massive smoothbore cast-iron guns were built to fire heavy shot against shipping and masonry, and this 1864 wet-collodion glass negative records one of the largest of them. Fort Monroe stayed in Union hands for the entire war, making it a key base for operations on the Virginia Peninsula. The gun's popular name is tied to President Abraham Lincoln's visits to the fort during the conflict, and the photograph shows the sheer scale of coastal artillery that defended the harbor.
| Created / published | 1864 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass 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. 0570 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. Fort Monroe (Va.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865 Artillery (Weaponry) Forts & fortifications.United States--Virginia--Fort Monroe. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,746 × 1,366 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46152 |
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