179th New York Volunteers

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, 4:45 A.M.

Title: Before Petersburg at sunrise, July 30th 1864

Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist

Date Created/Published: 1864 July 30.

Medium: 1 drawing on green paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 34.5 x 51.3 cm. (sheet)

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-22452 (digital file from original item) LC-USZ62-176 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: DRWG/US - Waud, no. 727 (B size) [P&P]

Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Notes:

Sig ned lower right: AR Waud.

Title inscribed below image.

Inscribed above image: Spires in Petersburg. The mine.

Inscribed on separate sheet of cream paper: Explosion of the mine under the Confederate works at Petersburg July 30th 1864. The spires in the distance mark the location of the city; along the crest, in front of them are the defensive works, it was an angle of these that was blown up, with its guns & defenders. The explosion was the signal for the simultaneous opening of the artillery and musketry of the Union lines. The pickets are seen running in from their pits & shelters on the front, to the outer line of attack. In the middle distance, are the magnificent 8 & 10 inch Mortar batteries, built and commanded by Col. Abbott. Nearer is a line of abandoned rifle pits, and in the foreground is the covered way, a sunken road for communication with the siege works and the conveyance of supplies and ammunition to the forts. The chief Engineer of the A. of P. is standing upon the embankment watching progress throw [sic] a field glass.

Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 20, 1864, p. 536-7.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.727)

Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864.

Reference print available in Ray, Plate 83 (p. 162-163)

Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 83.

Subjects:

Abbott,--Colonel--Military service.

Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864.

Artillery (Weaponry)--1860-1870.

Military officers--Union--1860-1870.

Mines (Weapons)--1860-1870.

Forts & fortifications--1860-1870.

Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.

Engineers--1860-1870.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.

United States--Virginia--Petersburg

Format:

Drawings--American--1860-1870.

Collections:

Civil War

Drawings (Documentary)

Part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings (Library of Congress)

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