Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: ACXB

Credit:	unknown photographer
Date:	1865.04
Negative Size:	4.5 in. x 8 in. stereo
Equipment:	bayonet; cartridge box; cartridge case; gabion; long gun; solid shot
Locations & Lines:	Fort Mahone VA; Petersburg battlefield VA; Virginia
Military Units:	CS Army; US Army
Sources:	Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Federal picket line in front of Fort Steadman [sic].

The MOLLUS Collection says: Union picket line in front of Fort Mahone, Petersburg.

Cartridge case reads “From Watervliet Arsenal.”

Etched onto negative: earth works in front of Petersburg 17.