Between decks on gun boat

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Original Caption: Between decks on gun boat
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-598
From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)
Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896
Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865
Subjects:
American Civil War, 1861-1865
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.)
 
4152969193_583a5a1250_z.jpg


Original Caption: Between decks on gun boat
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-598
From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)
Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896
Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865
Subjects:
American Civil War, 1861-1865
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.)
I think what you're seeing is the elevating screw on a large naval Parrott gun.
Wonder what that thing with the coils is. I guess it is to the left but better view in the lower center of the stereo shot? Could be a screw for some type of press. I don't know.
 
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