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Caption: Swamp Angel after Bursting
Additional Description: The same platform after the bursting of the gun. Note the weapon laying across the sandbags. In this view the reinforcing band is still attached to the weapon. Apparently in shipping the band was wedged off.
(Civil War photographs, 1861-1865, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. Call No. LC-B8156- 35[P&P])
Submitted: December 9, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p11624
File Size: 0.056 Megabytes

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