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Photographer: Library of Congress
Caption: Interior view of Fort C. F. Smith
Additional Description: Reproduced on the upper right of the marker, this photo shows gun crews of Company L, 2d New York Artillery in the fort. The crew is working one of the field howitzers assigned to the fort. Note to the front of the gun crew is one of the 8-inch mortars used in the fort. In the background on the right are 24-pdr siege guns on the platforms. An 8-in siege howitzer can be seen on the right on another platform. Between the field howitzer and the platforms is a bombproof.
(Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0765)
Submitted: February 3, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p15213
File Size: 0.049 Megabytes

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