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Siege of Petersburg Item Info

Title:
Siege of Petersburg
Date:
August 17, 1864
Transcription:
Recto: "Siege of Petersburg.";Verso: "Burnsides troops building embrasures for guns in the works before Petersburg on the 17th Aug. [1864]."
Subjects:
Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865 Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Fortification--Virginia--Petersburg
Condition:
Three vertical folds; brown spots.
Place:
Virginia--Dinwiddie--Petersburg
Medium:
graphite on paper
Dimensions:
7.25 x 4.5 in.
Genre:
Image;StillImage
Coordinates:
37.2279279, -77.4019266999999
Source:
Original drawing location: CW-UK-VA-8-17-64 (Box 10).
URI:
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4929
Ref. Number:
(Becker)CW-UK-VA-8-17-64
Collection:
America's Civil War Years: Multiple Perspectives
Tags:
Embrasure Fortifications
Format:
image/jpeg
Attribution
Citation:
"Siege of Petersburg", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/2969.html