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[Mortar and light artillery]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0465 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1866 Pagination: 1 albumen : b&w Height: 34.8 cm, Width: 54 cm Order a Copy

Mortar gun with two small bore canons on either side. A stack of cannonballs is on the right. A man leans on the mortar. Two oddly shaped column-like structures in the background. Postwar display of guns.

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