An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Siege of Petersburg

The Union Lines

introduction
  • engineering and Union strategy
  • the evolution of the lines
            special study:  "the grand medicine pow wow"

1. the appomattox river
to the race course
  • the early lines (june-july 1864)
  • the later lines (august 1864-april 1865)
            fort mcgilvery
            battery ix
  • the picket lines

2. the hare farm
  • the early lines (june-july 1864)
  • the later lines (august 1864-april 1865)
            battery x
            fort stedman
            batteries XI & XII
            fort haskell
  • the picket lines

3. the taylor farm
  • the early lines (june-july 1864)
            "fort durell"
            the 14-gun battery
  • the later lines (august 1864-april 1865)
            batteries XIII and XIV
            fort morton
            battery xv
  • the picket lines
            special study:  the "horseshoe"

4. baxter road to the avery farm
  • the early lines (june-july 1864)
            "fort willcox" (roemer's battery)
            the 18-gun battery
  • the later lines (august 1864-april 1865)
            battery xvi
            battery xvii & fort meikel
            battery xix and fort rice
  • the picket lines

5. jerusalem plank road
  • the early lines (june-july 1864)
            "fort tilton"
            the flank redoubts
  • the later lines (august 1864-april 1865)
            batteries xx & xxi
            fort sedgwick ("fort hell")
            fort davis and battery xxii
  • the picket lines

6. miscellaneous
  • second-line forts and batteries
            batteries iv & v
            "the dictator"
            fort friend
            fort avery
            "fort twitchell"
  • logistics and communications