Yorktown, Virginia. Water battery

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Yorktown, Virginia. Water battery.
CREATED/PUBLISHED

1862.
NOTES
Caption from negative sleeve: Water Battery, Yorktown, Va., 1862.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-2360B) and right (LC-B811-2360A) halves of a stereograph pair.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4166-J.
Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).
 
You don't see that kind of Battery very much....
Usually any entrenched coastal gun position was referred to as a "battery", since it was a grouping of artillery, like Fort Wagner sometimes referred to as "Battery Wagner".
 
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