Image ID: ABCD

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1864.07.25

Negative Size:

4.5 in. x 10 in. stereo

Equipment:

basket; canister shot; cannon; gunner’s haversack; 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:

National Archives

National Archives says: Mortar “Dictator” mounted on railway car, Lines of Investment, Petersburg, Va.

Only half the original stereo negative survives.