American Civil War,Dutch Gap Canal,Virginia,VA,Giant Sling-Cart,Carry Siege Guns

Title: Dutch Gap Canal, Virginia. (Drewry's Bluff, James River) A giant sling-cart to carry siege guns
Creator(s): Reekie, John, photographer
Date Created/Published: [between 1862 and 1869]
Notes:
Title from Civil War caption books.
Photographer: John Reekie.
Confederate Sling_Cart to carry siege guns. Designed to handle the two 12-inch guns that were cast at the Tredegar Iron works in Richmond. The wheels are more than eleven feet high. Cart required twelve mules and 150 men with drag ropes to move it when carrying only an 8-inch rifle or a heavy Columbiad over bad roads. See Miller, vol. 5, p. 169.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4166-F.
Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Glass negatives--1860-1870.
Stereographs--1860-1870.
Bookmark /cwp2003005782/PP/
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