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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59433

USS Hunchback (1862-65)


Loading drill on a Dahlgren 12-pounder rifled howitzer, mounted on an iron field carriage, in the James River, Virginia, 1864-65. Photographed by Matthew Brady.
Note Hunchback's "walking beam" mechanism, combination sponge/ramrod in use and man at right with ammunition container.

The original photograph has Brady negative number B-620.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Page made 11 November 1998
Coding updated 11 February 2001