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View from the site of the upper battery of the Confederate emplacement at Columbus, KY, looking up the river toward Belmont, MO. From the appearance in size of the barges near the Missouri shore, we can imagine what a small target a Union gunboat would have presented to the southern gunners. |
| One of the cannon captured at Columbus. The man standing next to the cannon is 5' 5" tall. |  |