Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: ANHMm, 400 DPI, JPEG, Original Photograph, .9 Mb

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Image ID: ANHM

Credit:

unknown photographer
Date:

1865
Equipment:

horse, saddle
Locations & Lines:

Peeble’s Farm (Petersburg battlefield VA); Petersburg battlefield VA; Virginia
Military Units:

50th New York Engineers; Army of the Potomac; US Army
Structures & Establishments:

Peebles Farm Signal Tower (Petersburg VA)
Transports:

freight wagon
Sources:

USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

The MOLLUS Collection says: Signal tower 150 feet high on Peebles Farm, southwest from Petersburg Va. erected in January 1865 by two companies of 50th N.Y. Engineers under direction of Capt. Chas. S. Davis, U.S. Signal Corps, Chief Signals Officer, Army of the Potomac.

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