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Battery No. 1, Near Yorktown, Virginia

Alexander GardnerMay 1862

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

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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  • Title: Battery No. 1, Near Yorktown, Virginia
  • Creator: Wood & Gibson, Alexander Gardner
  • Date Created: May 1862
  • Location Created: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
  • Physical Dimensions: 16.8 × 22.9 cm (6 5/8 × 9 in.)
  • Type: Print
  • External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
  • Medium: Albumen silver print
  • Terms of Use: Open Content
  • Number: 84.XO.944.2.1.13
  • Culture: American
  • Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  • Creator Display Name: Wood & Gibson Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)
  • Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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