Fort Pulaski Ga. Dismounted mortar – 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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Step back in time with Fort Pulaski Ga. Dismounted mortar, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Fort Pulaski Ga. Dismounted mortar
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A dismounted mortar lying at Fort Pulaski, on Cockspur Island near Savannah, Georgia, makes this view more about aftermath than action: the gun has been pulled from its carriage and left among the fort's defenses. Union forces took the fort in April 1862 after a bombardment with rifled artillery, which breached its brick walls and showed that masonry fortifications were vulnerable to modern guns. The stereograph was made in 1862 by James F. Gibson, one of the photographers who recorded the captured works, using the wet collodion process of the period.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : 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. 0591 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. Forts & fortifications. Mortars (Ordnance).United States--Georgia--Fort Pulaski. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,212 × 1,356 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46697 |
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