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File:Main Deck New Orleans 1862.jpg|Six of these mortar schooners armed with the 13-inch (330 mm) seacoast mortar supported the Union attack with [[indirect fire]] from an anchorage near Prophet's Island, downriver from Port Hudson. (U.S. Army Military History Institute.)
File:CScolumbiadFtDarling.jpg|A Confederate 10-inch (254 mm) [[Rodman gun|Rodman]]
File:On deck of Gunboat. Bringing Parrott gun into position on board the "Mendota". - NARA - 524794.jpg|The Yankee answer: A four-gun battery of Dahlgren 9-inch (229 mm) navy smoothbores from ''USS Richmond'' set up just east of "Fort Desperate" in battery ten (see Fortifications and Batteries map) ([[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]]).
File:DahlgrenGunMorrisIsland.jpg|A nine-inch (229 mm) Union navy Dahlgren gun set up on land for siege work as they were at battery ten at Port Hudson. The gun is whitewashed so it can be more easily worked at night. The projections at the breech are for the navy double vent percussion firing system. The crewman at the far right is wearing the Union navy uniform.
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