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Item Code: 668-243
Stereo view is of Battery #4 at Yorktown which was manned by large 13-inch mortars of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery. Some of the officers of the regiment are visible among the mortars in the background. The officer leaning against the massive mortar closest to the camera is 1st Lieutenant Elijah Gibbons. Gibbons would later serve as captain of Company B, 14th Connecticut Infantry and would die of wounds received in action at Fredericksburg.
The image is clear with good contrast. Yellow mount and paper show light surface dirt throughout. Bottom of mount has 1862 publication date.
Reverse bears a printed label that reads in part “PHOTOGRAPHIC INCIDENTS OF THE WAR. NO. 377 BATTERY NO. 4—NEAR YORKTOWN-MOUNTING TEN 13-INCH MORTARS, EACH WEIGHING 20,000 POUNDS. EAST-SOUTH END. – FROM GARDNER’S GALLERY. CORNER OF 7TH AND D STREETS, WASHINGTON, D.C. – NEGATIVE BY JAMES F. GIBSON – E. & H. T. ANTHONY, 551 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. WHOLESALE AGENTS.” [ad]
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