179th New York Volunteer Infantry
A Union Regiment Forged in the Petersburg Campaign
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chapter 10
July 30, 1864

Confluence Taylor with n/s Ravine

Loss at the Crater

Battle of the Crater, 4:30 AM

Battle of the Crater 5am

Duane with Warren

Edward Gyles

Marshall

Gen. Bartlett

200 yards swale looking east

Looking West

March Walks

Ninth Into The Crater

Roemers Battery

Stephen Elliott, Jr.

Swale 200 yards west

Tracing Ravine

Taylor to Mine

Bartlett

Duane with Warren, 4:45 A.M.

William Mahone

Explosion at the Crater

Duane with Warren
Using Plate 64-3 from the OR Atlas, overlayed on a properly scaled section of the Michler map, we can
find Waud's location on the battlefield.

Each side of the red square is 1 mile in length.
The cyan rectangle measure 1/4 by 1 mile.

The upper left corner of the red square marks the approximate location of the "Petersburg church
spires" while the cyan circle is the mine explosion.

Mortar emplacements and perspectives to the mine plume and the church spires show the very likely
place where Waud saw Warren and Duane together -- the orange circle about 1/2 mile from Fort Davis.


Using Plate 64-3 we can also place the sketch-artist Andrew McCallum with Roemer's 34th NY Battery.
But was this on July 30? or a month earlier on June 30?
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