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    • Timothy O'Sullivan, Photographer at Petersburg >
      • O'Sullivan and Vest Man
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    • Andrew J. Russell, Photographer at Petersburg >
      • "Fort Mahone" CS Batteries 25 & 27
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      • June 18, 1864-Federal Engineers Map
      • June 21, 1864, Federal Engineers Map
      • June 22, 1864. Second Corps at Jerusalem Plank Road
      • June 30, 1864 -- XVIII Corps Map
      • Undated Federal Engineers Map--June-July, 1864
      • July 1864 Map of XVIII Corps Lines
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      • Native American Perspective of the Crater
      • August 28, 1864, Michler Map
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      • Army of the Potomac, Nov. 2, 1864
      • 1864, Coast Survey Map of Petersburg
      • Manuscript Survey, 1865
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      • Michler Map Series 1865-1867
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    • Fort Wadsworth -- the Evolution
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    • Griffith Farm
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    • Jordan House
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    • Shand House
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    • Some Operations of the Signal Corps at Petersburg
  • Archeology
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    • Civil War Sinks
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  • Articles, Papers, Presentations
    • Shiman: A Note on Maps
    • 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
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  • Kittens, Puppies & Ponies
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  • Executions!
  • Combat Trenching: An Introduction
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Hancock's Junction / Jerusalem Plank Road  U. S. M. R. R. Mile 11

From Jerusalem Plank Road near the Jones House. From here, the main branch of the USMRR continued west to join the Weldon Railroad near Globe Tavern and what would become Fort Wadsworth. A southern branch running parallel with the plank road connected at 1 mile to Gregg Station and 2 1/4 miles to Crawford Station at the Temple House.
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Becker Collection 32645 detail. "Scenes from the Construction of Grant's Railroad. Crossing Jerusalem Plank Road." Andrew McCallum, artist.
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Woodcut in Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Oct. 1, 1864.
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Vicinity of Hancock's Junction at the crossing of Jerusalem Plank Road from NARA "Map of the City Point & Army Line." Courtesy of NARA and of Ted Linton, who procured such a detailed scan.
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