Image ID: AJUF

Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 804. Near view of Bombproof tent in the advance line in front of Petersburg, Va., August 7, 1864. [Gardner Co. stereo card]

Photographic War History. The War for the Union. 1861-1865. No. 804. Making Coffee, On the Lines before Petersburg, Va., 1864. This view gives a glimpse of the bomb-proofs in which our soldiers tried to live, during the long siege of Petersburg, 1864–1865; the camp-fire and the coffee-kettle look as familiar as in those days of yore. [Taylor & Huntington stereo card]

Gardner No. 804.

Etched onto and written on negative: 172 [crossed out]. 804.