Dead Confederate Artilleryman

10/1/2019

Speaking of finding places on Petersberg Project...in regard to story "The rebel in the Road"....could these pictures have been taken nearby?
https://www.loc.gov/item/2011649987/
https://www.loc.gov/item/2012647828/

Three photos were taken of this unfortunate soldier struck with a piece of shrapnel between the eyes. Not near the Jerusalem Plank Road picket line photos. Current thinking puts these three photos nearer to Confederate Battery 25..

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T. F.

10/9/2019 10:11:12 pm

Among the Thomas Roche pictures of dead CS soldiers are two of a barefoot corpse lying in halfway up a trench with side torn out..in one picture taken directly at him..a line of entrenchments is seen in the background...same as Rebel in the road pictures..or not?
Also in apost Civil war History of the 4th Rhode Island Infantry are pictures of Fort Sedgwick..and the picture of the Federal picket line..and a picture of the picket line 30 years after the war...
In regard to the Crater pictures...of Interest in Vol 4 of Battles and Leaders of the Civil war p.555 sketch of "The Crater" by Major James C Coit

T.F.

10/9/2019 10:17:28 pm

Puzzle on the execution site..the last picture by John Reekie of a gallows...could this have been taken at City Point? It resembeles more the sketch of the City Point execution...??

T.F

10/9/2019 10:26:41 pm

Lastly in the pictures of the dead Artilleryman-there is a wooden structure behind the log entrenchments..any idea whaaat it could have been? An headquarters...? Not a bombproof...?

T. F.

4/9/2020 05:08:45 pm

Of Interest the assault of Ft Gregg and 39th Illinois
Link to 1899 Regimental History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Illinois_Infantry_Regiment

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