Image ID: AIFV

Credit:	unknown photographer
Date:	1865.04
Negative Size:	8 in. x 10 in.
Equipment:	12-pounder Napoleon gun; cannon; chair; field carriage; gunner’s haversack; handspike (wood); scabbard; shovel; sponge and rammer staff ; sword
Locations & Lines:	Petersburg battlefield VA; Virginia
Military Units:	1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery; 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (Battery B); 18th Corps; US Army
Persons:	Brady (Mathew B.)
Sources:	J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

National Archives says: Battery on drill. (Brady in center).

The MOLLUS Collection says: Cooper’s Battery – “B.” 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery. In front of Petersburg.

Library of Congress says: Outer line of Confederate fortifications, in front of Petersburg, Va., captured by 18th Army Corps, June 15, 1864.

Etched onto negative: No. 16, 9435 [both crossed out].

Seeing the Civil War