Tag: Peeble’s Farm Signal Tower (Petersburg battlefield VA)

A seven-tiered, 150-foot Union signal tower near Petersburg, VA.

MOLLUS collection says: Signal tower 150 feet high on Peebles Farm, southwest from Petersburg Va. erected in January 1865 by two companies of 50th N.Y. Engineers under direction of Capt. Chas. S. Davis, U.S. Signal Corps, Chief Signals Officer, Army of the Potomac.