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View Showing Our Line on the Left (Siege of Petersburg) Item Info
- Title:
- View Showing Our Line on the Left (Siege of Petersburg)
- Artist:
- Becker, Joseph, 1841-1910
- Date:
- September 20, 1864
- Transcription:
- Recto: numerals as on verso.;Verso: Panel B: "View Showing our line on the left // 1 Left of the 2nd Corps 2 9th Corps 3 Six Mile house. Headquarters General Warren 4 Our old line held at the time of the Weldon Road fight 5 5th Corps 6 Abandoned Union works 7 Weldon Railroad 8 Halifax Road 9 Signal Station 10 Our Picket Line // Rebel Line about 300 yards from ours // Sketched on the spot Tues Sept 20 -64- // [Signed] Joseph Becker."
- Subjects:
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865
- Condition:
- Poor; two panels held together with single pin and glued paper; crumbling at all corners; water stain upper right corner Panel B.
- Place:
- Virginia--Dinwiddie--Petersburg
- Medium:
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions:
- 13.25 x 9.5 each panel in.
- Genre:
- Image;StillImage
- Coordinates:
- 37.2279279, -77.4019266999999
- Source:
- Original drawing location: CW-JB-VA-9/20/64a + b (Box 1.)
- URI:
- http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4571
- Ref. Number:
- (Becker)CW-JB-VA-9/20/64a + b
- Collection:
- America's Civil War Years: Multiple Perspectives
- Tags:
- Weldon Railroad
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Attribution
- Citation:
- "View Showing Our Line on the Left (Siege of Petersburg)", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/2993.html