An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Siege of Petersburg

the confederate lines

introduction
  • strategy for defense
  • confederate engineering

1. the dimmock line
  • battery 5
  • the dunn house battery

2. the appomattox river to
the norfolk & petersburg
railroad
  • from the river to the racecourse
  • colquitt's salient
  • gracie's salient
            special study:  the mine at gracie's salient
  • the picket lines
  • retrenchments & second-line batteries

3. the norfolk & petersburg railroad to baxter road
  • the line along poor creek
  • elliott's salient (pegram's battery) and the crater
  • the picket lines
  • retrenchments & second-line batteries

4. rive's salient
  • baxter road to the old dimmock line
  • battery 25
  • battery 27
  • fort mahone (battery 29)
  • the picket lines
  • retrenchments & second-line batteries
  • special study:  "fort damnation"

5. miscellaneous
  • communications & logistics