Corporal L.A. Young's Squad, 1st Heavy Artillery, Fort Warren, Boston, August 7, 1896

Corporal L.A. Young's Squad, 1st Heavy Artillery, Fort Warren, Boston, August 7, 1896

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Title:
Corporal L.A. Young's Squad, 1st Heavy Artillery, Fort Warren, Boston, August 7, 1896
Description:
Six Massachusetts soldiers from the 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment by an artillery battery at Fort Warren, Boston on August 7, 1896. According to the caption on the back privates Galway, Kimball, Slate, Otis, and Williams are shown. Fort Warren was constructed on Georges Island at the entrance to the Boston Harbor between 1833-1861. The fort served as a prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War and was permanently decommissioned in 1947.
Date:
August 7, 1896
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Massachusetts Archives
Collection (local):
Spanish-American War, 1898 Collection
Subjects:
Fort Warren (Mass.)
Massachusetts. Militia--Heavy Artillery Regiment, 1st
Soldiers
Military weapons
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Fort Warren
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/bk129234p
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Language:
English
Notes:
Item originally held at the Massachusetts National Guard Museum & Archives, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Identifier:
1896001
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