David Knox
Mortar Dictator, in Front of Petersburg
1864
Documenting one of the Union Army's most powerful siege weapons, this photograph shows the massive 13-inch mortar nicknamed 'Dictator,' which could hurl 200-pound shells over two miles into Confederate positions.
- Medium
- Albumen print, pl. 75 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)
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