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      • June 18, 1864-Federal Engineers Map
      • June 21, 1864, Federal Engineers Map
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      • June 30, 1864 -- XVIII Corps Map
      • Undated Federal Engineers Map--June-July, 1864
      • July 1864 Map of XVIII Corps Lines
      • 18th Corps, June 18, 1864
      • Native American Perspective of the Crater
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      • Army of the Potomac, Nov. 2, 1864
      • 1864, Coast Survey Map of Petersburg
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  • Articles, Papers, Presentations
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    • The Siege Landscape: Through Fire and Ice at Petersburg
    • "The Rebel in the Road"
    • "A Strange Sort of Warfare Underground"
    • Lost Trenches of Petersburg: June 17
    • Between the Lines
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      • Chamberlain at Petersburg, June 18, 1864
  • Kittens, Puppies & Ponies
  • The "Horseshoe"
  • Executions!
  • Civil War Combat Trenching
  • Confederate 8-inch Columbiad
  • New: Bailey/Johnston Farm
  • New: Depot Hospital at City Point
  • New: Shot tower

The amazing appearing and disappearing Battery XXVII, plus  another signal tree....  Take a look.

5/25/2017

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The lines on each side were frequently re-figured.  Here is one example.

​Plus, thanks to Edward Alexander, we've posted a new signal tree picture.
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Fort Archer captured by Griffin's Division Union Fifth Corps, Sept. 30, 1864

5/22/2017

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Above is a second drawing of the Peebles Farm/Pegram's Farm Operations, 30 Sept. -2 Oct. by the same unidentified artist. Drawn for Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, both images are in the collection of the New-York Historical Society. The six-sided redoubt was afterwards reversed by Federal soldiers and renamed Fort Wheaton after Capt. J. H. Wheaton, 1st Michigan Infantry, killed during the fighting.
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Pegram's Farm

5/13/2017

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DL began a stub of an entry on Pegram's Farm inspired by a newly recognized drawing and a woodcut of the house and its later ruins. There was significant fighting on this property (owned by the Civil War Trust) on several occasions, particularly on October 2, 1864, when overly confident Federals advancing too far were repulsed by a series of counterattacks. Not a great moment for the Yankees but they ended up retaking and holding the ground. Fort Welch was erected on the site. 
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Photographic Views of Fort Meikel

5/12/2017

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Fort Meikel died an untimely death with the coming of Interstate 95 and the torturous exchanges that resulted in strip-mining the location of the fort. We can still see the fort in a few correctly identified photographs. Dr. Shiman led the way on this effort a few years back and we are just getting around to get these images posted and identified. More to come.
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Harper's Weekly Special Artist, Charles H. Chapin added under Pencil and Ink

5/9/2017

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Not much to say about him yet, but he contributes interesting views of Peebles Farm and Armstrong's Mill. And he is the only artist to have captured the location of the Pegram House outside the Union lines at Fort Welch.
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Puppy or Goat? in LC 03676?

5/9/2017

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Are those hooves or merely spindly canine paws? Did the dog look suddenly to its left or does it really have a narrow goat-like face? Is the tail too long for a goat and trending in the wrong direction? Inquiring minds want to know.
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