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File Details: ALEZm, 1400 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 47.3 Mb

Image ID: ALEZ

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1865.04.03

Negative Size:

4.5 in. x 10 in. stereo

Equipment:

Barbette carriage (center pintle-wood); cannon; grapeshot; handspike (wood); handspike wrench; Rodman gun; tompion

Locations & Lines:

Fort Sedgwick VA; Petersburg battlefield VA; Virginia

Military Units:

CS Army; US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Photographic History. The War For The Union. War Views. No. 3197. A large Gun in the Rebel Works at Petersburgh [sic], Va. It is stated that during the fight, Sunday April 2d, 1865, Gen. Lee stood on the little knoll in the foreground, and actually shed tears when he saw his own troops being driven back by the Union soldiers. This view was taken April 3d, after the storming of Petersburgh, Va. [Anthony Co. stereo card]

Anthony No. 3197.

Etched onto negative: 3197. copyright.

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