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Battery of 100 [pounder] & 200 [pounder] Parrots at the Farmhold [sic] House, Yorktown, Va. [May 1862 ca.]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0394 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1862/05 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 8.4 cm, Width: 11.3 cm Order a Copy

Inscription in blue pencil on verso: "Waud. Battery of 100 & 200 Parrots at the Farmhold [sic] House erected by the 5th N.Y. under Warren." View of four artillery seige guns [most likely Battery No. 1 pointing out over the embrasured walls of a fort.

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