The Swamp Angel
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.192 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: "The celebrated Gun with which Gen. Gillmore threw the first shell into Charleston. Taken at the Brooklyn Navy yard, by permission of Commodore Paulding. Weight 42,500 lbs., with 100 lbs. of powder carries a ball weighing 450 lbs. five and a half miles."
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