Image ID: AMYP

Credit:

by Knox (David)

Date:

1864.09.01

Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.

Equipment:

barrel; canister shot; cannon; handspike (iron); handspike (wood); mortar (13 inch); mortar Dictator; rope; shell tongs

Locations & Lines:

Point & Army Line Railroad (CP&AL); Petersburg VA; Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Transports:

artillery car

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

The MOLLUS Collection says: Mortar “Dictator” In front of Petersburg, Va. August, 1864.

Etched onto negative: No. 463. 7463.