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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Caption: Federal Siege Batteries
Additional Description: "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 masonary forts."
Submitted: November 2, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p42074
File Size: 0.619 Megabytes

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