View Showing Our Line on the Left (Siege of Petersburg)

Title

View Showing Our Line on the Left (Siege of Petersburg)

Abstract

Date

September 20, 1864

Transcription

Recto: numerals as on verso.
Verso: Panel B: "View Showing our line on the left // 1 Left of the 2nd Corps 2 9th Corps 3 Six Mile house. Headquarters General Warren 4 Our old line held at the time of the Weldon Road fight 5 5th Corps 6 Abandoned Union works 7 Weldon Railroad 8 Halifax Road 9 Signal Station 10 Our Picket Line // Rebel Line about 300 yards from ours // Sketched on the spot Tues Sept 20 -64- // [Signed] Joseph Becker."

Condition

Poor; two panels held together with single pin and glued paper; crumbling at all corners; water stain upper right corner Panel B.

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

13.25 x 9.5 each panel in.

Genre

Graphite drawings--American--1860-1870
Panoramic drawings--American--1860-1870

Coordinates

37.2279279, -77.4019266999999

Source

Original drawing location: CW-JB-VA-9/20/64a + b (Box 1.)

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4571

Ref. Number

(Becker)CW-JB-VA-9/20/64a + b

Citation

Becker, Joseph, 1841-1910, “View Showing Our Line on the Left (Siege of Petersburg),” The Becker Collection, accessed November 21, 2024, https://beckercollection.bc.edu/items/show/2993.