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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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BATTERYRODGERS ITS15 INCH GIN Battery Rodgers, about half a mile from the southern outskirts of Alexandria, overlooked the Potomac and the mouth of HuntingCreek. Its site was a bluff rising about twenty-eight feet above high water. It was armed with five iOO-pounder Parrott guns and a15-inch Rodman smooth-bore, eniplaced in pairs. The parapet was twenty-five feet thick. The 15-inch Rodman gun visible above thebomb-proofs, can be studied below closer at hand. This monster of its time became possible through the discoveries made by Captain Rod-man, of the United States Ordnance Department. It is mounted on a center-pintle carriage—that is, the tracks carrying the carriage arecompletely circular, and the pivot on which it revolves is under the center of the carriage. The timber revetment of the interior slopeof the parapet affords greater protection to the garrison; the men can stand close to the wall, and are less apt to be struck by high-angle fire. In the foreground are the entrance

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