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Title	Railroad Battery before Petersburg.
Creator	Unknown
Contributors	Taylor & Huntington (publisher)
Date	ca. 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.
Related Resources	MARC record: http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1855325
Keywords	Civil War; stereoviews; Union Army; United States Army; U.S. Army; Federal Army; military; railroads; railroad cars; armored vehicles; soldiers; cannons; guns; Richmond, Virginia; armored trains; campaigns; battles; Siege of Petersburg; Richmond-Petersburg Campaign; Richmond Petersburg Campaign; Confederate; Confederates; Confederacy; Confederate States Army; 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
Archival File Path	ARCHIVE\DeGolyer\reproductions\Ag1982-0145
Digital Collection	Civil War: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints
Library	DeGolyer Library
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University

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