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Photographer: Bill Coughlin
Taken: July 27, 2003
Caption: The Lower Water Battery
Additional Description: Artillery at the lower water battery also protected the Cumberland River from a Union advance. On February 14, 1862, the river batteries defeated Flag Officer Andrew Foote's flotilla of ironclad and wooden gunboats, forcing the Union troops to resort to a land attack.
Submitted: August 2, 2009, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p72652
File Size: 1.142 Megabytes

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