Image ID: AARG

Credit:	by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:	1864.07-08
Negative Size:	4.5 in. x 10 in. stereo
Equipment:	basket; canister shot; cannon; handspike (iron); mortar Dictator; shell tongs
Locations & Lines:	City Point & Army Line Railroad (CP&AL); Virginia
Military Units:	US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Transports:	artillery car; flatcar; USMRR boxcar 1235; USMRR locomotive Warrior/Lt. Gen. Grant
Sources:	J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress; National Archives; San Francisco MOMA; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: 13 inch mortar “Dictator”, in front of Petersburg, Va.

The first USMRR box car is unidentifiable, but the second is No. 1235. The locomotive is the “Lt. Genl. Grant.”

Seeing the Civil War