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Description: | A photograph of a heavy gun battery at Yorktown, Virginia, America, by Alexander Gardener (1821-1882) from a negative produced by Wood and Gibson (active 1860s) in May 1862. This photograph is from an album entitled 'Canada and the United States.1867' by John Downes Rochfort (1825-1885), who toured Canada and America in 1867. These heavy guns were used during the inconclusive siege of Yorktown between 5 April 5 and 4 May 1862. A small Confederate force in the town stopped a much larger Union army from marching on the Confederate capital at Richmond. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | photograph | Temporal: | 1862-05 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882) | Identifier: | 1995-5001/1/22 | Go to resource |
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