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Photographer: Craig Swain
Caption: Battery Decatur
Additional Description: The open areas on the lower level were for storage of ammunition and supplies. The guns were mounted on two disappearing carriages in the center of the structure, with their mounts divided by a traverse, seen here in the center of the battery structure. On the far right, between the path and the battery, is the sunken road that would have connected to a similar, but larger, 12-in gun battery. That battery was never completed.
Submitted: May 26, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p24362
File Size: 0.216 Megabytes

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