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Federal Batteries on Tybee Island, as seen from Fort Pulaski
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: 2008
Caption: Federal Batteries on Tybee Island, as seen from Fort Pulaski
Additional Description: Left: Battery Stanton, Battery Grant, Battery Lyon, Battery Lincoln
Middle: Battery Burnside, Battery Sherman
Right: Battery Halleck, Battery Scott, Battery Sigel, Battery McClellan, Battery Totten

Federal Siege Batteries Thirty-six big guns on Tybee Island, 1 to 1½ miles away, converged their fire on the fort. The bombardment proved that rifled cannon could destroy masonry forts.
Submitted: May 2, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p22887
File Size: 0.619 Megabytes

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