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[Fort Fisher, N.C. Interior view, showing traverse with dismounted gun]

A print of a photograph from the ruins of Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Discarded clothing lies in the immediate foreground. A ladder and slight slope lead to a platform where a Union soldier stands next to a destroyed artillery piece. The carriage is...

GLC05111.01.0270

Officers of the 1st Unattached Co. Mass. Heavy Art. (afterwards Co. A, 1st Batt.)

Title taken from inscription on recto. Identified as: Lt. C.E. Niebuhr, Lt. F.E. Boyd, Capt. Stephen Cabot, Lt. C.F. Livermore and Lt. E.W. Hayes.

GLC05111.01.0367

Union siege guns "at park" in Yorktown

Image show a variety of guns, organized in neat rows. A large group of men are lined up in the background. Numeric notation "287," "3" & 9 (in crayon) "101."

GLC05111.01.0384

View of interior of fortifications with large man made mounds [Fort Fisher?]

Possible the interior of Fort Fisher. The mounds are constructed with bricks or sand bags as walls. Artillery guns occupy the places in between the structures. Numeric notation: "XXII 1241."

GLC05111.01.0386

Man standing behind the wheel of a massive gun carriage.

The wheel is twice as tall as the man. A rope is tied to a hook on the wheel's axel. The carriage would have been used to haul large artillery pieces. Numeric notation: "1029."

GLC05111.01.0399