Gunboat "Mendota" in James River, near Deep Bottom, 1864

12 # (i.e. pound) rifled cannon of the "Teaser," (i.e. Teazer) one of the first confederate gunboats

Eight inch Brooke rifled gun, weighing 21,987 lbs., in unfinished battery wood-hurdle revertment (i.e. revetment), anchored by grape vines