IMAGE
Burnside's Troops Crossing into Virginia Item Info
- Abstract:
- Panorama.
- Title:
- Burnside's Troops Crossing into Virginia
- Artist:
- Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895
- Date:
- October 27th, 1862
- Transcription:
- Recto: "Breastwork.";Verso: "Sketch of the pontoon bridge at Berlin, Gen. Burnsides troops crossing into Virginia on Monday Oct. 27th/62 // [Signed] E.F."
- Subjects:
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Pontoon bridges--Virginia
- Condition:
- Bad loss of paper on upper right corner; rips; dog ears; stains.
- Place:
- Virginia--Southampton--Berlin
- Medium:
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions:
- 11.5 x 8.5 in.
- Genre:
- Image;StillImage
- Coordinates:
- 36.8576503, -76.9774611
- Source:
- Original drawing location: CW-EF-VA-10/27/62 (Box 4.)
- URI:
- http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4657
- Ref. Number:
- (Becker)CW-EF-VA-10/27/62
- Collection:
- African-Americans
- Tags:
- African-American Boat Breastworks Horses Military infrastructure River Wagon
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Attribution
- Citation:
- "Burnside's Troops Crossing into Virginia", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/2642.html