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![A 300 pounder (parrot gun [Parrott rifle]) on Morris Island, S.C., firing on Fort Sumter.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn6/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjEvMDEvMDEvYS0zMDAtcG91bmRlci1wYXJyb3QtZ3VuLXBhcnJvdHQtcmlmbGUtb24tbW9ycmlzLWlzbGFuZC1zYy1maXJpbmctb24tZm9ydC1zdW10ZXItNzg0Y2M4LTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/20/webp "A 300 pounder (parrot gun [Parrott rifle]) on Morris Island, S.C., firing on Fort Sumter.")
![A 300 pounder (parrot gun [Parrott rifle]) on Morris Island, S.C., firing on Fort Sumter.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn6/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjEvMDEvMDEvYS0zMDAtcG91bmRlci1wYXJyb3QtZ3VuLXBhcnJvdHQtcmlmbGUtb24tbW9ycmlzLWlzbGFuZC1zYy1maXJpbmctb24tZm9ydC1zdW10ZXItMmJhM2MyLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/20/webp "A 300 pounder (parrot gun [Parrott rifle]) on Morris Island, S.C., firing on Fort Sumter.")
The first 300 pound Parrott gun. The gun is named Col. Brayton. It throws its shell into Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter)
Summary
Photograph shows a 300 pound Parrott rifle, labeled "Col. Brayton" in a Union Army mortar battery on Morris Island, possibly Fort Putnam.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).
Printed on mount: Photographic History, The War for the Union.
"No. [1]52" from series, "War Views."
Attributed to Sam Cooley by collector.
Another print on LOT 4166-B, no. 2. See also: LOT 14110-5, no. 47.
Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection.
Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.
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Date
01/01/1863
Location
morris island
Source
Library of Congress
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