Image ID: AAHW

Credit:	by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:	1864.07.25
Negative Size:	11 in. x 14 in.
Equipment:	basket; canister shot; cannon; handspike (iron); mortar Dictator; shell tongs
Locations & Lines:	City Point & Army Line Railroad (CP&AL); Virginia
Military Units:	US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Transports:	artillery car; flatcar; USMRR boxcar 1235; USMRR locomotive Warrior/Lt. Gen. Grant
Sources:	Boston Athenaeum; DeGolyer Library SMU; Gilder Lehrman Institute; Library of Congress; National Archives; San Francisco MOMA; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection; Virginia Historical Society

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 304 – RAILROAD MORTAR AT PETERSBURG, VA., July 25, 1864.

Library of Congress says: 13 inch mortar “Dictator” in front of Petersburg, Va.

The MOLLUS Collection says: Mortar Dictator on U.S. Military R.R. in front of Petersburg.

Etched onto negative: 564. R R Mortar.

Seeing the Civil War