Saturday, January 17, 2015

Time-Lapse View of Union Soldiers Posing With the Wreckage of the Swamp Angel on Morris Island, South Carolina (1863)


Close-up view of the barrel of the 8-inch Parrot gun and the Union soldiers playing cards,

Time-lapse view of Union soldiers posing with the wreckage of the Swamp Angel, a gun emplacement for an 8-inch Parrot gun which was built in swampland on Morris Island, 1863. It fired incendiary shells into downtown Charleston, a distant 4.5 miles away, until it burst during its 36th shot on August 23, 1863. Two of the soldiers near the barrel of the Parrot gun are playing a card game. By Haas and Peale.

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