River battery

[tmh10]

River battery.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
[between 1861 and 1869]
NOTES
Caption from negative sleeve: Water Battery or Battery Abbot (Ft. Brady) on James River.
Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).
SUBJECTS
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Glass negatives--1860-1870.
MEDIUM
1 negative : glass, wet collodion.
CALL NUMBER
LC-B811- 4036
REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-DIG-cwpb-03539 DLC (digital file from original neg.)
SPECIAL TERMS OF USE
No known restrictions on publication.
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
(digital file from original neg.) cwpb 03539 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.03539

 

[Seduzal]

Is that a steel gun mount? If it is how did they get it to hold together, by bolts & nuts? A welder wasn't invented back then??

 

[TinCan]

Isn't that a row of rivets across the rear of the carrige? Bet that's how they did it.