179th New York Volunteer Infantry

A Union Regiment Forged in the Petersburg Campaign

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Grand Strategy .. Constant Battle
Crossing the James To the James Beauregard Battery 5 Dimmock Line Fort Clifton Grand Strategy Cincinnati Two Grants Menhenitt June 15 June 15 Battery Nomination North of James June 1864 Overland to Richmond Looking South, July 1864 Weitzel's Tower Pontoon over the James
Fort Clifton
View of Fort Clifton Rebel from the Mills House looking across the Appomattox Creator(s): Waud, William, -1878, artist Date Created/Published: [1864 ca. May 9 - June 15] Medium: 1 drawing on green paper : pencil, Chinese white & black ink wash ; 15.3 x 34 cm. (sheet). Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-21700 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: DRWG/US - Waud (W.), no. 3 verso (A size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: Title inscribed above image. Inscribed above image, from left to right: The end as it should be; The Water Battery made two years ago; Rebel signal house; Clifton House; (Sketch 2); A Clifton Battery bearing down the Appomattox; B new Battery lately erected. Inscribed within image: A; B. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Subjects: Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities--Confederate. Fort Clifton (Appomattox, Va.)--1860-1870. Signal towers--1860-1870. Forts & fortifications--1860-1870. Dwellings--1860-1870. United States--Virginia--Fort Clifton United States--Virginia--Appomattox River Format: Drawings--American--1860-1870. Collections: Civil War Drawings (Documentary) Part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004661222/