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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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