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(March 2005) Enlarge Battery #5, Harwood House Battery: Original magazine and reconstructed battery
 

(March 2005) Enlarge Battery #5, Harwood House Battery: Original magazine and reconstructed battery

  

(March 2005) Enlarge Battery #5, Harwood House Battery: Reconstructed river battery. The canon replica was used during filming of the Fort Wagner scenes in the 1989 movie "Glory"

      

(March 1996) Marker at intersection of Clay and Washington: Vaiden (Mississippi) Battery: River Batteries, Army of Vicksburg, Capt. S. C. Bains. The company served its pieces on the city front from May 18 to May 23, when most of them were ordered to the rear line of defense. One section under Capt. S. C. Bains, served two 6 pdr guns on the city front to the end of the defense, July 4, 1863

 

(March 2011) Enlarge Devil's Backbone Battery: Fort Hill Drive across from "Anchors to Windward"
 
Devil's Backbone Interpretive Marker

     

(March 2011) Enlarge Battery on Fort Hill Drive: Battery about 150 yards Northwest of the marker. View is looking west
 
Interpretive Marker

 

(March 2011) Enlarge Battery on Fort Hill Drive: View looking west from a few yards west of the marker

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