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Now Online: Michler Map Series 1865-1867
Civil War Combat Trenching
Views of the City of Petersburg
Petersburg Panorama 1865
Steeples of Petersburg
Petersburg Mill Photographs
The Mine Explosion and its Crater
Petersburg in Pencil and Ink
Alfred R. Waud, Special Artist at Petersburg
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Waud Drawing of 5th Corps Fortifications
William Waud, Special Artist
Charles H. Chapin, Special Artist
Joseph Becker, Special Artist at Petersburg
Edwin Forbes, Special Artist at Petersburg
Winslow Homer, Special Artist
Edward Mullen, Special Artist at Petersburg
Andrew W. Warren, Special Artist
Enlisted Artists
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Charles Wellington Reed
Andrew McCallum
Francis Knowles
James William Pattison
Herbert Valentine
Howard A. Camp
Petersburg Photographs --So Many!
Dimmock Battery 5 Photographs
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Working with Photographs
City Point
City Point Wharf Explosion, Aug. 9, 1864
Fort Rice?? We don't think so!
Federal Picket Line, Jerusalem Plank Road
Egbert Guy Fowx, Photographer at Petersburg
Timothy O'Sullivan, Photographer at Petersburg
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Harrison's Creek USCT Camps
Fort Morton and Baxter Road Group
Fort Haskell Panorama and Bomb Proofs
Fort Stedman Group
Gracie's Salient Group
Camp of the 50th N. Y. Engineers
David Knox, Photographer at Petersburg
William Redish Pywell, Photographer at Petersburg
John Reekie, Photographer at Petersburg
Thomas C. Roche, Photographer at Petersburg
Andrew J. Russell, Photographer at Petersburg
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"Fort Mahone" CS Batteries 25 & 27
U. S. Military Railroad
Terminus of Military R. R. at City Point
City Point to Clark's Station
Pitkin's Station to Shooting Hill
Hancock's Junction/Jerusalem Plank Road
Parke's Station
Warren's Station
Patrick's Station
Topographical Engineers -- Our Heroes
Grand Medicine Pow-wow
Michler's Reports from Topographical Department
John E. Weyss, Cartographer
William H. Paine, Cartographer
Gilbert Thompson
Albert Hanry Campbell, C.S.A. Cartographer
Confederate Maps
Confederate Defenses 1862
Gilmer-Campbell Maps, 1864
Stevens Map July 1864
Fields of Fire
Campbell Dinwiddie County 1864
Coit's map of the Crater Battlefield
Federal Maps
Army of the Potomac, Routes of the Corps to Petersburg
June 9 1864, Kautz Attack
June 18, 1864-Federal Engineers Maps
June 18, 1864, 18th Corps
June 19, 1864, Engineers Map
June 21, 1864, Federal Engineers Maps
June 22, 1864. Second Corps at Jerusalem Plank Road
June 29, 1864. Dept of VA and NC
June 30, 1864 -- XVIII Corps Map
June-July, Undated Federal Engineers Map-
July 29, 1864, Engineers Map, Annotated
July 1864 Map of XVIII Corps Lines
Crater, Native American Perspective of the Crater
August 1864, Michie Map - Bermuda 100
August 28, 1864, Michler Map
Aug.-Nov. 1864 Two Base Maps
September 13, 1864, Recon Map
Sept. 13-Oct.25 versions. Redoubts and Batteries
September 30, 1864, Warren Map
October 1864, Two IX Corps Maps
October 20, 1864. Benham's map of defenses of City Point
Nov. 2, 1864, Army of the Potomac
1864, Coast Survey Map of Petersburg
NEW 1865-1867, Manuscript Survey Maps
1864-1867, Michler-Weyss, Siege of Petersburg
1871, Map of Recapture of Ft. Stedman
1881, Boydton Plank Road
Confederate Forts and Batteries
Dimmock Line
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Priest Cap
French Rifle Pits
Fort Clifton
"Fort Mahone" CS Batteries 25 & 27
Confederate 8-inch Columbiad
Leadworks
Federal Forts and Batteries
Battery X
Fort Alexander Hayes
Fort Avery
Fort Conahey
Fort Davis & Battery XXII
Fort Fisher
Fort Meikel --Photographic Views
Fort Morton
Fort Patrick Kelly
Fort Sedgwick, better known as Fort Hell,
Fort Wadsworth -- the Evolution
Fort Willcox or Battery XVI
Battlefield Features
Aiken House
Armstrong's Mill
Avery House
Bailey/Johnston Farm
Blandford Church
Broadway Landing, Appomattox River
The Crater
Cummings House
Dams and Inundations
WW Davis Farm
Dunn House
Friend House
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View from Friend House toward Gibben complex and Petersburg
Gibbons Properties
Globe Tavern / Weldon Railroad
Gregory House
Griffith Farm
Gurley House
Hare House Hill
The "Horseshoe"
Jerusalem Plank Road
Jones House
Jordan House
Newmarket Racecourse
Pegram's Farm
Peebles Farm, Pegrams Farm, Poplar Springs Church
Shands House
Taylor Farm
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The Ice House
Surviving Taylor Barn
Williams House
Signal Towers and Trees
Some Operations of the Signal Corps at Petersburg
Archeology
Geology of the Crater
Fieldwork -- Petersburg
Civil War Sinks
Deserted Confederate Camp
Gracie's Countermine
LIDAR Forts and Batteries
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
Between the Lines
Combat Trenching: An Introduction
Lowe -- Post-War Topographical Survey
Civil War Maps and Landscapes -- Observations
Kittens, Puppies & Ponies
Executions!
Notes on Leveled Earthworks
Depot Hospital at City Point
Pontoon Bridges
The Great Pontoon Bridge Across James River
Captain Robert Davis CSA
Parke's Station Mile 13N
LC 20310. "Parke's Station, U.S.M.R.R. Petersburg," drawing by A. R. Waud.
Detail of Parke's Station from NARA "Map of the City Point & Army Line."
LC 35118. "Aiken House, in front of Petersburg, Va., near headquarters Army of Potomac" photographed by John Reekie, Feb. 1865.
Becker Collection 32656 detail. "U.S. Military Rail Road Passing the Gurley House." Andrew McCallum, artist.
"Dr. Gurlay's Mansion, HQ 3rd Div 9th Corps near Weldon R.R., Va." Charles Wellington Reed, Reed papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.