- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Brooke Rifle
- Date of Original:
- 1708/2022
- Subject:
- Port Columbus Civil War Naval Center
Museums--Georgia--Columbus
Naval museums--Georgia--Columbus
Ordnance--Georgia--Columbus
Men--Georgia--Columbus
Historical reenactments--Georgia--Columbus
Confederate States of America. Navy--Ordnance
Gunnery
Ordnance, Naval--Georgia--Columbus - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A Confederate Brooke Rifle is fired regularly outside of the National Civil War Museum at Port Columbus. The gun was built in 1865 at the Confederate Navy Works in Selma, Alabama, and was brought to the Confederate Navy Shipyard in Columbus for use on the CSS Jackson.
Photograph of a Confederate Brooke Rifle being fired outside of the National Civil War Museum at Port Columbus, Georgia. Two men in replica Confederate uniforms stand behind the cannon, and a large fiery ball shoots from the end of the barrel.
The gun was built in 1865 at the Confederate Navy Works in Selma, Alabama, and was brought to the Confederate Navy Shipyard in Columbus for use on the CSS Jackson. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/national-civil-war-naval-museum-at-port-columbus/m-8379/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/national-civil-war-naval-museum-port-columbus
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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