Confederate Mortar Crew

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Rebel mortar crew preparing to fire on the Federal Fort Pickens - 1861.

 

[Robert Gray]

Another print made before the glass plate cracked.

 

[Robert Gray]

A similar view.

 

[JOHN42768]

And so it began. Four years of destruction of the country.

 

[Nathan Stuart]

Another print made before the glass plate cracked.

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Not much evidence in this photograph that uniforms were worn or ranks indicated by this mortar crew. There appears to be a lone officer standing in the center, on the mound (above the mortar).

 

[UCVRelics]

It you look real close you will see the markings of the largest supplier of artillery to the Confederacy US