179th New York Volunteers

179th New York Volunteer Infantry

A Union Regiment Forged in the Petersburg Campaign

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chapter 12

Low Point (August 1864)

Aiken House	Colquitt	Blick Station	Map of Eastern Lines 28 August 1864	City Point Explosion
John Parke	Weldon Picket Lines	Weldon Railroad	Willcox HQ, August 1864

City Point Explosion

Title: Explosion at City Point
Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
Date Created/Published: [1864 August 9]
Medium: 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil ; 23.2 x 34.0 cm. (sheet).
Reproduction Number:
LC-DIG-ppmsca-21253 (digital file from original item)
LC-USZ62-146667 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: DRWG/US - Waud, no. 361 (A size) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:

Signed lower right: A R Waud.

Title inscribed below image.

Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 27, 1864, p. 545.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.361)

Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1864.

Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Subjects:

Railroad facilities--1860-1870.

Disasters--1860-1870.

Explosions--1860-1870.

Railroads--1860-1870.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities.

United States--Virginia--City Point
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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