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Battery No. 1, Near Yorktown, Virginia

Date: May 1862
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of several large cannons behind a battery wall at a Union Army fortification built in the orchard of Fairnholt House near Yorktown, Virginia. Two soldiers stand next to two of the cannons, known as Parrott guns. Ladders lean against the walls of the works between the cannons, as trenches wind through the fortification.

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