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English: "Battery, No. 4--near Yorktown, mounting 10 13-inch mortars, each weighing 20,000 pounds. East-South end / Brady's Album Gallery." United States Civil War: artillery placements outside Yorktown, Virginia. Scanned from a photographic print on carte visite mount; original from albumen
Русский: Артиллерийская батарея армии северян с 330-миллиметровыми мортирами образца 1861 г. в битве при Йорктауне (Гражданская война).
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Date circa 1862
date QS:P,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Author
James F. Gibson  (1828–1905)  wikidata:Q38521022
 
Alternative names
Jas. F. Gibson
Description American photographer and war photographer
Date of birth/death 1828 Edit this at Wikidata 1905 Edit this at Wikidata
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Virginia Edit this at Wikidata
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