Reproduction of a drawing showing the marsh battery built in August 1863 at Morris Island, S.C. under the orders of General Q.A.Gillmore. The battery,comprised of 13,000 sandbags surrounding a parrott cannon on a parapet, was used to fire onto Charleston, S.C. in order to gain control of the Charleston Harbor., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Creator
Lape, G.T, photographer
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.54b]