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| Title | Cushing's Artillery Men |
| Coverage / Year | September 20, 1862 |
| Description | Photograph, b/w |
| Interpretation | Photographed on the Antietam battlefield, Maryland. The cannon in this picture is a Napoleon gun from Cushing's battery. It fired a six-pound shot about two miles. This gun was used extensively in the field, sometimes as many as forty were lined up in a battery, wheel-hub to wheel-hub. |
| Lesson Plans / Themes | Antebellum Society and the Civil War; Civil War - Matthew Brady Photos; Civil War Battle Cubes; Photographing War |
| Learning Standards | 16 History |
| Author or Creator | Brady, Matthew B., 1823-1896 |
| Source | The World of Mathew Brady: Portraits of the Civil War Period by Roy Meredith; ISBN 0-912588-05-5, 240p., 1976 (p.144) |
| Subject / Keywords | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Soldiers; Ordnance; Artillery; Civil War |
| Collection Publisher | Illinois State Library
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| Further Information | For any further information related to this record, please contact the Collection Publisher. See http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/tdc for more information about this project. |
| Rights Management Statement | http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/tdc/conditions.htm |
| Resource Identifier | brady1.jpg |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1872421612003_brady1.jpg |
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