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Ordnance Wharf, City Point, Va [a battery lined up at City Point]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.170 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Reserved Battery's Light 12 Pounders on the Ordnance Wharf, City Point, Va." A long row of cannons and limbers lined up on a plank sidewalk near railroad tracks.

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