Petersburg Collection (#43)

CIVIL WAR: CARD GAME, 1864. Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry playing cards at Petersburg, Virginia, in August 1864

CIVIL WAR: UNION PICKET. A Union picket (guard in front of the line) at Fort Mahone, during the Union Army siege of Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864 to March 1865

CIVIL WAR: CHAPLAINS, 1864. Chaplains of the 9th Corps of the Union Army at the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, October 1864

ULYSSES S. GRANT. Commander of the Union Armies, Ulysses S. Grant, at City Point, Virginia, during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, during the American Civil War, 1864

CIVIL WAR: TELEGRAPH, 1864. Battery wagon headquarters of the civilian U. S
CIVIL WAR: TELEGRAPH, 1864. Battery wagon headquarters of the civilian U.S. Military Telegraph Service, supporting the Army of the Potomac at Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. The Confederate Fort Mahone at Petersburg, Virginia, photographed after the city surrendered to the Union Army, 3 April 1865

CIVIL WAR: CRATER, 1864. The Confederate Army charging at the Battle of the Crater. Engraving by E. Heinemann, after a painting by J.A. Elder, c1887

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Interior of the Union Armys Fort Sedgwick during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, early 1865

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG, c1864. A bombproof shelter in Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph, c1864

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Confederate fortifications at Petersburg, Virginia, with chevaux-de-frise beyond, during the American Civil War, 1865

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Union General Gouverneur Kemble Warren directing the fortification of the Union lines on Weldon Road, c20 August 1864, during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia

CIVIL WAR: MORTAR, 1862. Confederate troops with a 13-inch mortar nicknamed the Dictator, at Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph, September 1864

CIVIL WAR: ENGINEERS. Group of soldiers of the U. S. Engineer Battalion, at Petersburg, Virginia
CIVIL WAR: ENGINEERS. Group of soldiers of the U.S. Engineer Battalion, at Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph, August 1864

CHARLES F. ADAMS, JR. (1835-1915). American historian. Captain Charles Francis Admas Jr. (on left) with fellow officers of the First Massachusetts Cavalry of the Union Army at the Army of the Potomac

WOUNDED UNION SOLDIER. Alfred A. Stratton, Company G of the 147th New York Volunteers of the Union Army, who was wounded at the Battle of Petersburg, Virginia, 1864

CIVIL WAR: OFFICERS, 1864. Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry photographed in camp near Petersburg, Virginia, August 1864

CIVIL WAR: TELEGRAPH, 1864. Two youthful operators of the civilian U. S. Military Telegraph Service at headquarters
CIVIL WAR: TELEGRAPH, 1864. Two youthful operators of the civilian U.S. Military Telegraph Service at headquarters, Petersburg, Virginia, August 1864

CIVIL WAR: COCKFIGHT, 1864. Union soldiers gathered around two African American men with roosters before a cock fight, at the headquarters of General Orlando B

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Union soldiers, besieging Petersburg, Virginia, storming the line to the left of Fort Mahone, March 1865. Pencil drawing, probably by Alfred R. Waud

CIVIL WAR: RUINS, 1865. The ruins of Robert E. Lees headquarters at Petersburg, Virginia, in April 1865. Contemporary pencil drawing by Alfred R. Waud

CIVIL WAR: PONTOON BRIDGE. Union soldiers on a pontoon bridge over the Appomattox River at Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph, 1865

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Headquarters of Union Army General Gouverneur Kemble Warren at the home of Confederate Colonel Isaac Avery, near Petersburg, Virginia, January-March 1865

CIVIL WAR: FORT STEADMAN. Interior of the Union Armys Fort Steadman in Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph by Timothy O Sullivan, May 1865

CIVIL WAR: RICHMOND, 1865. Union soldiers guarding an arsenal among the ruins of the Franklin Paper Mill yard in Richmond, Virginia. Photograph, April 1865

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Union Armys Fort Sedgwick during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph, 1865

CIVIL WAR: RESTAURANT. Business seems to be slow at Sutlers bomb proof Fruit & Oyster House on the Union Army line at the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864 to March 1864

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG, 1864. Union Army troops in a trench before Petersburg, Virginia, December 1864. Photographed by Mathew Brady

BRADY: PHOTO OUTFIT, c1864. Mathew Bradys photo outfit during the American Civil War, near Petersburg, Virginia, c1864

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Colonel Henry Pleasants of the 48th Pennsylvania Regiment supervising the carrying of gun powder into the mine in preparation to explode the tunnel under the Confederat lines

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Cheval de frise at the Confederate Fort Mahone defenses at Siege of Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph, 1865

CIVIL WAR: FOOT BRIDGE. Footbridge across Old Town Creek in Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph, April 1865

CIVIL WAR: DRINKING, 1864. Union army hospital stewards pouring drinks at camp in Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph by Timothy O Sullivan, October 1864

BRADY: BLANDFORD CHURCH. Blandford Church and graveyard, Petersburg, Virginia, April 1865. Photographed by Mathew Brady

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. James Longstreets Texas Brigade retaking the Union Armys position on the James River before the Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War, 16 June 1864

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR. (1835-1915). American army officer, railroad executive, and historian. Adams (left) photographed with a fellow officer of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry at Petersburg

VIRGINIA: BLACKSMITH. A group of military men preparing to shoe a horse in the camps temporary blacksmith shop, Petersburg, Virginia. Photographed by David Knox, c1865

UNION LOCOMOTIVE, c1864. The General J. C. Robinson and other locomotives of the U. S
UNION LOCOMOTIVE, c1864. The General J.C. Robinson and other locomotives of the U.S. Military Railroad at City Point, Virginia, during the Siege of Petersburg, 1864-65

CIVIL WAR: ARTILLERY. Federal ordnance at the depot at Broadway Landing, Virginia. Photographed from the main eastern theater of war during the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Bivouac in the rifle pits of the 5th Corps of the Union Army besieging Petersburg, Virginia. Pencil and Chinese ink drawing by Alfred R. Waud, July 1864

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Union troops under General James H. Wilson destroying tracks of the Weldon Railroad, which carried supplies from North Carolina to the Condederate Army at Petersburg, Virginia

ASSAULT ON PETERSBURG. The explosion of the tunnel dug by the 48th Pennsylvania Regiment under the Confederate lines before Petersburg, Virginia, during the American Civil War, 30 July 1864

CIVIL WAR: AQUEDUCT, 1865. Canal aqueduct in Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph, 1865

CIVIL WAR: PETERSBURG. Union Army trenches at Fort Sedgwick, photographed by Mathew Brady or one of his assistants after the Battle of Petersburg, Virginia, 1865

VIRGINIA: PETERSBURG CHURCH. Old Blandford Church in Petersburg, Virginia. Wood engraving, American, c1857

PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, 1856. Petersburg, Virginia, seen from the north. The railroad depot is in the center of the picture. Wood engraving, American, 1856

WV: PETERSBURG GAP. View of Petersburg Gap, West Virginia. Wood engraving, American, late 19th century

RUSSIA: ROYAL WEDDING, 1866. The weddding in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1866, of the Czarevitch Alexander (later Czar Alexander III) and Princess Dagmar of Denmark

General Kuropatkin & his staff joyfully leaving St. Petersburg for the front. Print shows the Russian general A.N. Kuropatkin parting with difficulty from two grief-stricken women while his staff

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