Morris Island South Carolina. The Marsh Battery or Swamp Angel after the explosion – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Morris Island South Carolina. The Marsh Battery or Swamp Angel after the explosion, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Morris Island South Carolina. The Marsh Battery or Swamp Angel after the explosion
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The gun pictured here is the Swamp Angel, a large Parrott rifle set up in a marsh battery on Morris Island, South Carolina, in 1863. Union forces under Gen. Quincy Gillmore used it to shell Charleston from unusually long range. The weapon burst in August 1863 after firing only a few dozen rounds, and this view records the wrecked emplacement afterward. David B. Woodbury, an army engineer who photographed the Charleston operations, made the wet collodion glass negative. Its wartime subject and the damage it documents make it a useful record of the siege.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: Haas & Peale; glass side: 35. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 3,266 px · prints to 17 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50355 |
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