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A Union Regiment Forged in the Petersburg Campaign
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Title: Spot near fort Damnation where the 9th Corps charged and afterwords carried the abattis and Cheveaux de frize [sic] across to the rear of the rebel works as a defense against attack from the second line
Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
Date Created/Published: [1865 ca. June]
Medium: 1 drawing on green paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 23.8 x 33.9 cm. (sheet)
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-21062 (digital file from original item) LC-USZ62-14669 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: DRWG/US - Waud, no. 208 (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.
Inscribed upper right: Sketch A. the Frize [sic] and Abattis was placed in the night after the fight. Inscribed lower left above title: This bank enemies first line.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.208).
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Subjects:
Forts & fortifications--1860-1870.
Guards--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields.
Fort Mahone (Va.)--1860-1870.
Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865.
United States--Virginia
IX Corps.
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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