Army engineers removing 8-inch Columbiad

[tmh10]

[Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Army engineers removing 8-inch Columbiad gun from Fort McAllister].
CREATED/PUBLISHED
[1864 December]
SUMMARY
Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman at the sea, December 1864. After marching through Georgia for a month, Sherman stormed Fort McAllister on December 13, 1864 and captured Savannah itself 8 days later. These seven views are limited to the former stronghold and its dismantling preparatory to Sherman's further movement northward. This operation was ordered on December 24, and Gen. William B. Hazen [2d Division, 15th Corps] and Maj. Thomas W. Osborn, Chief of Artillery, had it completed by December 29, storing the guns at Fort Pulaski.
NOTES
Reference: Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0715
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-3498B) and right (LC-B811-3498A) halves of a stereograph pair.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4166-G.
Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)

 

[ErnieMac]

One person working, everyone else watching and supervising. Some things haven't changed in 150 years.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

One person working, everyone else watching and supervising. Some things haven't changed in 150 years.

"How many Yankees does it take to ........"

 

[Ray Ball]

Here's a photo of a couple of our young Engineers learning to lash the same type of rigging arrangement.