File:Testing the Sawyer gun at the Rip Raps (Fort Wool).jpg

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English: Scene on the dock at the Rip Raps. Testing the Sawyer gun and projectile, a shell bursting on the rebel batteries at Sewell's Point. Inscribed below title on verso: The man in the white coat is Gen. Wool. The man in the white hat is Gen. Butler. Published in New York Illustrated News, September 9, 1861, p. 289. (1 drawing on green paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 17.8 x 23.4 cm.) Note: A powerful experimental cannon, the Sawyer Gun, was installed at Fort Wool during the Civil War. The range of this weapon extended all the way to Sewell's Point, more than three miles away, the site of a Confederate earthen fort armed with three artillery batteries totaling of 45 guns.
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Alfred Waud  (1828–1891)  wikidata:Q2226717
 
Alfred Waud
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Date of birth/death 2 October 1828 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1891 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata Marietta Edit this at Wikidata
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