The Swamp Angel

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GLC#
GLC05137.192-View header record
Type
Images
Date
1861-1865 ca.
Title
The Swamp Angel
Place Written
New York
Pagination
1 stereocard
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

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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