Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: ABFC

Credit:	unknown photographer
Date:	1864
Negative Size:	8 in. x 10 in.
Equipment:	cannon; handspike (wood); mortar; shovel
Locations & Lines:	Bermuda Hundred VA; Virginia
Military Units:	Army of the Potomac; US Army
Structures & Establishments:	Crows Nest Signal Tower (Bermuda Hundred VA)
Sources:	Library of Congress; Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

The MOLLUS Collection says: Written on mount: Crows Nest Lookout and Battery near Bermuda Hundred.

Library of Congress says: Crow’s Nest battery and lookout in front of Petersburg, Va.

African-american work crew, unmounted mortars, Butler’s lines, near Petersburg, VA., observation/signal tower in distance. 1864.

Etched negative: 9667, No. 6 [both crossed out]. 106. No. 75.