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In front of Petersburg - Public domain scan / drawing

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In front of Petersburg - Public domain scan / drawing

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Signed below image: A.R. Waud.
Title inscribed below image.
Inscribed upper left: enemies first line of earthworks our lines below and in front. Inscribed above image: Smoke of locomotive on Petersburg and Richmond RR. Inscribed lower left: This sketch was made at the request of Genl. Meade, for his use, from a tree used by the signal officers. It took over an hour and a half rebel sharpshooters kept up a fire at me the whole time. Inscribed upper right: Smou[ldering? ...]
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.763)
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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01/01/1864
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Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
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Library of Congress
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