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Image ID: AARG

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1864.07.25

Negative Size:

4.5 in. x 10 in. stereo

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:

Library of Congress; National Archives; San Francisco MOMA; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

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

The first USMRR box car is unidentifiable, but the second is No. 1235. The locomotive is the “Lt. Genl. Grant.”