IMAGE
The Advance on Petersburg - Colored Infantry Drawing Captured Guns to the Rear After the Fight Item Info
- Title:
- The Advance on Petersburg - Colored Infantry Drawing Captured Guns to the Rear After the Fight
- Artist:
- Mullen, E. F.
- Date:
- February 9, 1864
- Transcription:
- Recto: No text.;Verso: "The Advance on Petersburg // Colored Infantry drawing the Captured rebel Guns to the Rear after the fight at the Rifle Pits // Men of the One Hundred days Regt Ohio Troops. Cheering them as they pass."
- Subjects:
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865 African American soldiers
- Condition:
- Vertical and horizontal folds; loss of paper at lower margin; dog ears at all corners, bad at upper left; rips along upper and right margin; brown speckling on Verso, some on Recto.
- Place:
- Virginia--Dinwiddie--Petersburg
- Medium:
- Graphite on heavy gauge wove paper
- Dimensions:
- 9.75 x 13.25 in.
- Genre:
- Image;StillImage
- Coordinates:
- 37.2279279, -77.4019266999999
- Source:
- Original drawing location: CW-EM-VA-2/9/64 (Box 7.)
- URI:
- http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4648
- Ref. Number:
- (Becker)CW-EM-VA-2/9/64
- Collection:
- African-Americans
- Tags:
- Bayonet Casualties Confederate artillery Rifle Uniform
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Attribution
- Citation:
- "The Advance on Petersburg - Colored Infantry Drawing Captured Guns to the Rear After the Fight", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/2659.html