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File Details: ALEXm, 1400 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 48.1 Mb

Image ID: ALEX

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1865.04.03

Negative Size:

stereo

Equipment:

axe; shovel

Locations & Lines:

Fort Mahone VA; Petersburg battlefield VA; Virginia

Military Units:

CS Army

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

No. 3196. Entrance to the Mine in the Rebel Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers “Fort Damnation.” This mine is situated in a deep gully, and was excavated about 600 yards. It was intended to undermine Fort Sedgwick. This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh [sic], Va., April 2d, 1865. [Anthony Co. stereo card]

Library of Congress says: Petersburg, Va. Entrance to mine in Fort Mahone, intended to undermine Fort Sedgwick.

Anthony No. 3195.

Etched onto negative: 3195. copyright.

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