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Suydam Collection MSS 1394001 Image Date: Circa 1863
Caption: Gun mounted on a mound in Fort William which used to be the cemetery for the officiers of
the regular army.
Notes: An army gun on the Indian mound in the northeastern part of the ground, not far from the
powder magazine and the cemetery. The mound itself had served as a burial ground for
officers of the post and their families as far back as the 1830s.
[East, "Civil War Album," text, p. 50; image, p. 51.]
Photographer: McPherson & Oliver, Baton Rouge
Image Format: Carte de visite - 4in. x 2.5in
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Suydam Collection MSS 1394002 Image Date: 1863
Caption: 18th NY battery Captain
Fort Williams
1863.
Notes: A section of Captain Mack's battery was doing routine artillery training.
[East, "Civil War Album," text, p. 54; image, p. 55.]
Photographer: Ascribed to McPherson & Oliver, Baton Rouge
Image Format: Carte de visite - 4in. x 2.5in
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