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A View of Our New Picket Line (Battle of Poplar Springs - Peeble's Farm) Item Info
- Abstract:
- Schematic landscape.
- Title:
- A View of Our New Picket Line (Battle of Poplar Springs - Peeble's Farm)
- Artist:
- Becker, Joseph, 1841-1910
- Date:
- October 11, 1864
- Transcription:
- Recto: no text.;Verso: "View of our new line of works on the right and center looking [out on] our picket line // 1 Squirrel level road 2 Rebel fort and intrenchments [sic] captured on Friday the 29th Sept 3 Peebles house and farm 4 Rebel fort and line of works captured in the charge made by the 5th Corps on Friday // Sketched Oct 11th 64 // [Signed] J.B."
- Subjects:
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865 Peeble's Farm, Battle of, Va., 1864 Fortification--Virginia
- Condition:
- Poor; vertical folds; loss of paper on left margin and upper right corner; rip along fold on right.
- Place:
- Virginia--Dinwiddie--Petersburg
- Medium:
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions:
- 13.5 x 9.75 in.
- Genre:
- Image;StillImage
- Coordinates:
- 37.2279279, -77.4019266999999
- Source:
- Original drawing location: CW-JB-VA-10/11/64a (Box 2.)
- URI:
- http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4599
- Ref. Number:
- (Becker)CW-JB-VA-10/11/64a
- Collection:
- America's Civil War Years: Multiple Perspectives
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Attribution
- Citation:
- "A View of Our New Picket Line (Battle of Poplar Springs - Peeble's Farm)", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/3012.html