Image: Btty-Whitman-As-Designed

Description: This is a plan of Battery Whitman dated 1897, from the U.S. Army Engineers. It shows the original design of the battery, with four mortar pits of four mortars each, in a rectangular array that was dubbed an "Abbot Quad," after the engineer who first drafted this design (in 1892) as a way of saturating an area with salvo fire from 16 coast defense mortars. In fact, this is one of eight early U.S. mortar batteries that were designed as Abbot Quads, including two of these "half quad" designs. This plan was obtained by Thomas Vaughan, courtesy of Glen Williford, and published as part of his "Analysis of Seacoast Mortar Battery Design Types (1890-1925), Stoughton, MA, 27 February 2004, p. 21. The plan is oriented toward the NNW (at top). The existing Btty Whitman Pit A is at lower left, and Pit B is at top left.
Title: Btty-Whitman-As-Designed
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