Union Artillery Emplacement before Yorktown, Virginia, April 1862, zoomable image

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Scanned by

Library of Congress

Notes

Sized, cropped, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, April 29, 2012.

Depicted ContentIn eastern Virginia, thousands of Confederate troops make a stealthy withdrawal from Yorktown

Depicted ContentIn Virginia, Union artillery outside Yorktown delivers a preliminary barrage on Confederate defenses

Image type

photograph

Original caption

Battery, No. 4--near Yorktown, mounting 10 13-inch mortars, each weighing 20,000 pounds. East-South end / Brady's Album Gallery.

Source citation

Civil War Collection, Library of Congress

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