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    • John Reekie, Photographer for the Quartermaster Corps
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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
      • 18th Corps, June 18, 1864
      • Native American Perspective of the Crater
      • August 28, 1864, Michler Map
      • IX Corps, Peebles and Pegrams Farms Oct. 1864
      • Army of the Potomac, Nov. 2, 1864
      • 1864, Coast Survey Map of Petersburg
      • Manuscript Survey, 1865
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    • U. S. Engineers at the Williams House
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  • Signal Towers and Trees
    • Some Operations of the Signal Corps at Petersburg
  • Archeology
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  • Articles, Papers, Presentations
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    • "A Strange Sort of Warfare Underground"
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    • 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 PETERSBURG PHOTOGRAPHS


John Reekie

PicturePhotographer John Reekie, from an image showing officers of the St. Andrews Society, November 1865. Katz, Witness to an Era (1991), page 231.
 John Reekie was a photographer for the Quartermaster Corps.  A biography on the St. Andrews University website states, "​John Reekie b. about 1829 fl in 1882 Appears in US census, 1860, living in 7th Ward Washington City, aged 31, born in Scotland. Associate of Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner, qv. His work appears in AG 's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, 1866. He figures in a group photograph with AG, 'Officers of the St Andrews Society ', illustrated in D. Mark Katz, Witness to an Era. He was a Freemason, and one of the committee to 'consider and report proper action in regard to the death of our late Brother [ie Alexander Gardner] ' in 1882 Lit: Joseph M Wilson, A Eulogy on the Life and Character of Alexander Gardner..., Lebanon Lodge, Washington, 1883; D. Mark Katz, Witness to an Era. The Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner, Viking, New York, 1991, p. 231."

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"Aiken House, in front of Petersburg, Va., near headquarters Army of Potomac" photographed by John Reekie, Feb. 1865. [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.35118]
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LC 00475. "[James River, Va. Point where Army of the Potomac crossed in June 1864 (Wyanoke Wharf?)]" The label is likely spurious. The image shows a corduroy road crossing a flooded stream, a stockaded camp on the right, and a lone rider. In the distance is a long, low ridge. Photograph by John Reekie.
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