Mortar Battery Number Four,
near Yorktown, VA (May 1862)

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This represents one of the batteries planted for the bombardment of Yorktown. The mortars of Battery No. 4 were of thirteen-inch caliber, and required great labor to place them in position. In places subject to mortar fire, the men constructed bomb proofs, and placed a sentinel on watch to warn of the approach of a shell.If the bombardment was continuous, the troops remained under cover, unless absolutely required to man the works.

Negative: Wood & Gibson

Positive: Alexander Gardner

 

Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War - Plate 1