Railroad Battery before Petersburg.
Rating
Title
Railroad Battery before Petersburg .
Creator
Unknown
Contributors
Taylor & Huntington
Date
ca. 1865
Date (EDTF)
1865~
Decade
1860-1869
Part Of
Collection of Civil War era stereographs
Series
The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865
Place
Petersburg , Virginia
Notes
Original photograph taken ca. 1865 . Stereograph created ca. 1885-1889 . Recto : [imprinted] 1245 . Railroad Battery before Petersburg . [For Description Of This View See The Other Side Of The Card.] 1861 Photographic War History . 1865 . 1861 The War for the Union . 1865 . Verso : [imprinted] 1245 . Railroad Battery before Petersburg . This is another battery on General Grant's Military Railroad , operated the same as the mortar 'Dictator ' shown in view No . 831 . The heavy cannon is mounted on a very strong , specially made car , protected with a roof of railroad iron . The car is readily moved along the line and the cannon is fired whenever required ; it is thus made very effective and annoying to the enemy , for it is something like the Irishman's flea : 'When they put their hand on it , it aint there' in other words , when they try turn to fire of their batteries on the Railroad Battery , our boys hitch on to the car and run it along out of the line of fire , and commence pegging away again . By the time the 'Johnnies ' find out where the Railroad Battery is , and get the range to smash it , 'it aint there' again ; the boys run it along to a new stand for business . 1861 - Photographic History . - 1865.. . Yours in F.C . and L. , Taylor & Huntington , Sole Owners of the Original War Views . No . 2 State St. , Hartford , Conn .
Keywords
Union Army ; United States Army ; U.S . Army ; Federal Army ; railroads ; railroad cars ; armored vehicles ; soldiers ; cannons ; guns ; Richmond , Virginia ; armored trains ; campaigns ; battles ; Siege of Petersburg ; Richmond-Petersburg Campaign ; Richmond Petersburg Campaign ; Civil War ; Confederates ; Confederate States Army ; Confederacy ; CSA
Physical Description
1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph , albumen ; 10 x 18 cm
Form/Genre
Photographs Photographic prints Stereographs Albumen prints
Digital Resource Type
Image
Digitization Date
Digitized: 2013
Digital Format
Displayed as .jp2; uploaded as .jpg
Archival File Resolution
Archival scan: 8577 w x 4985 h pixels, 48-bit RGB (recto); 8577 w x 4985 h pixels, 48-bit RGB (verso)
Digitization Process
Digitization process: Recto and verso scanned using an Epson V750 as 1200 ppi, 48-bit, RGB, .tifs; master recto and verso files combined to make composite derivative, saturation adjusted, sharpened, and resampled to 3000 pixels on the long edge, 24-bit .jpg
Call Number
Ag1982.0145
Upload File Name
ag1982_0145_068_c.jpg
Archival File Name(s)
ag1982_0145_068_r.tif; ag1982_0145_068_v.tif
Digital Collection
Civil War: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints
Library
DeGolyer Library
Publisher
Central University Libraries , Southern Methodist University
Rights
Please cite DeGolyer Library , Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee. For details see the https://sites.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/research/permissions/ web page. For other information , contact degolyer@smu.edu.
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