Confederate Quaker Guns at Centreville, Va. [March 1862]

Confederate Quaker Guns at Centreville, Va. [March 1862]

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GLC#
GLC05111.01.0374-View header record
Type
Images
Date
1862/03
Title
Confederate Quaker Guns at Centreville, Va. [March 1862]
Place Written
Centreville, Virginia
Pagination
1 photograph Height: 14.1 cm, Width: 15.8 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Inscription on verso: "Battle of Bull Run. Confederate Quaker guns at Centreville, Va." Inscription in another hand "F. H. Meserve Collection" Numeric notation: "5430G/2" Image of Union soldiers posed inside a fort with "Quaker guns." The position was taken by the Federals after the Confederates evacuated it. "Quaker guns"--logs-- were often employed in deserted sections of a line to deceive the enemy into thinking a postion was more heavily defened than it really was. Zoauve in the foreground holds a bed roll [blanket] wrapped in a gum blanket that is slung over the shoulders. Crop marks on the front of the mount and on the photograph.
See GLC 5111.01.0037

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