Siege of Petersburg - Ninth and Fifth Corps Picket Lines at Weldon Railroad
Ref No.: (Becker)CW-AM-VA-9/24/64a
Artist: McCallum, Andrew.
Date: September 24, 1864.
Medium: graphite on wove paper ;
Original Size: 13.25 x 9.5 in.
Transcribed Text:
Recto: "[labeling a diagram of the landscape below]
Picket line;
line of the 9th abouts;
Weldon RR;
abattus;
Weldon RR;
5th Army Corps;
5th Corps;
Ditch of great fort 5th Corps."
Verso: no text; sketch of cook pot hanging on a pole suspended between two sticks.
Condition: Loss of paper at left corners; three vertical folds and tears along one; smudging and minor speckling.
Location: Petersburg, Dinwiddie, Virginia, United States
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