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Haas & Peale, fl. 1846-1867 Battery Kirby

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05134.031 Author/Creator: Haas & Peale, fl. 1846-1867 Place Written: Morris Island, South Carolina Type: Photograph Date: 1863 Pagination: 1 albumen print Order a Copy

One albumen print entitled, "No.31 - Battery Kirby." Depicts two 8-inch Seacost Mortars in a trench used in the Battle at Fort Sumter.

Haas, Philip, fl. 1863
Peale, Washington, fl. 1863

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