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The Advance on Petersburg - Colored Infantry Drawing Captured Guns to the Rear After the Fight Item Info

Title:
The Advance on Petersburg - Colored Infantry Drawing Captured Guns to the Rear After the Fight
Artist:
Mullen, E. F.
Date:
February 9, 1864
Transcription:
Recto: No text.;Verso: "The Advance on Petersburg // Colored Infantry drawing the Captured rebel Guns to the Rear after the fight at the Rifle Pits // Men of the One Hundred days Regt Ohio Troops. Cheering them as they pass."
Subjects:
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865 African American soldiers
Condition:
Vertical and horizontal folds; loss of paper at lower margin; dog ears at all corners, bad at upper left; rips along upper and right margin; brown speckling on Verso, some on Recto.
Place:
Virginia--Dinwiddie--Petersburg
Medium:
Graphite on heavy gauge wove paper
Dimensions:
9.75 x 13.25 in.
Genre:
Image;StillImage
Coordinates:
37.2279279, -77.4019266999999
Source:
Original drawing location: CW-EM-VA-2/9/64 (Box 7.)
URI:
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4648
Ref. Number:
(Becker)CW-EM-VA-2/9/64
Collection:
African-Americans
Tags:
Bayonet Casualties Confederate artillery Rifle Uniform
Format:
image/jpeg
Attribution
Citation:
"The Advance on Petersburg - Colored Infantry Drawing Captured Guns to the Rear After the Fight", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/2659.html