Seeing the Civil War
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Image ID: ABDA

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:

1864.07-08
Negative Size:

4.5 in. x 10 in. stereo
Equipment:

basket; canister shot; cannon; handspike (iron); handspike wrench; 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; USMRR boxcar 1235
Sources:

J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 14.–RAILROAD MORTAR (13 inch) In Position Near Petersburg, Aug. 14, 1864.<br><br>

Related Image AAHW has a Russell printed label that dates the photo as July 25, 1864.<br><br>

The MOLLUS Collection says: Mortar “Dictator” U.S. Military Railroad. In front of Petersburg, Va.

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