Showing posts with label artillery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artillery. Show all posts

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Two Photographs of Union Soldiers Posing With a Captured Confederate 18-Pounder Cannon Nicknamed “Whistling Dick” (1863)



Two photographs of Union soldiers posing with a captured Confederate 18-pounder cannon nicknamed “Whistling Dick.” The gun was responsible for sinking the Union gunboat USS Cincinnati during the Siege of Vicksburg on May 26, 1863.

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Second image from Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War.

View of Smoke From Artillery Fire Coming From the Russian Redoubts of Mamelon and Malakoff During the Siege of Sevastopol Taken From Allied Lines (1855)


View of smoke from artillery fire coming from the Russian redoubts of Mamelon and Malakoff during the Siege of Sevastopol taken from Allied lines, 1855. Possibly the first combat photograph ever taken. By Roger Fenton.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Monday, March 2, 2015

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

View of a Damaged Artillery Caisson, a Dead Horse And Other Debris After the Battle of Gettysburg (1863)


"Unfit for service." View of a damaged artillery caisson, dead horse, and other debris after the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1863. A Union Army wagon train can be seen in the background. By Alexander Gardner. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Friday, November 21, 2014

View of United States Military Academy Cadets Drilling in a Fortified Artillery Battery Along the Hudson River at West Point (1856)


View of a United States Military Academy cadets drilling in a fortified artillery battery along the Hudson River at West Point, New York, 1856. By the Langenheim brothers. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Union Soldiers of Major Robertson’s Battery of Horse Artillery on Review Near Richmond, Virginia (1862)


Union soldiers of Major Robertson’s Battery of Horse Artillery on review near Richmond, Virginia. 1862. A similar image I posted here earlier says that it was taken in Fair Oaks, Virgina, which I think might be more accurate. By James F. Gibson. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Monday, November 17, 2014

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

View of a Union Artillery Unit Fording Tributary of the Rappahannock River on the Day of the Battle of Cedar Mountain (1862)



View of a Union artillery unit posing for a photograph during their fording of a tributary of the Rappahannock River on the day of the Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862. By Timothy O'Sullivan. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Union Soldiers Posing on Fortifications Captured From Confederate Forces in Yorktown, Virginia (1862)


Union soldiers posing on the captured fortifications of a Confederate battery which were reinforced with cotton bales in Yorktown, Virginia, June 1862. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Friday, September 19, 2014

Union Soldiers Posing Behind a Whitworth Breech-loading Cannon in Richmond, Virginia (1865)


Union soldiers posing behind a 12-pounder Whitworth breech-loading cannon in Richmond, Virginia, April 1865. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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