File:Petersburg crater sketch LOC (cropped).jpg
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Charcoal sketch depicting Col. Pleasants supervising the mining at Petersburg in preparation for the Battle of the Crater. Title inscribed below image. Note: Inscribed on an attached piece of cream paper: Carrying powder into the mine. The soldiers detailed for this duty carried the power--a keg in either end of a grain bag thrown across the shoulder. A portion of the covered way' along which they had to pass, was exposed to the enemies fire. At the dangerous points they would watch their oppartunity[sic] and dash over the exposed ground into comparative safety. Published in: Harpers Weekly, 20 August 1864, p. 528 (cover). Info from LOC: TITLE: Within the mine. Col. Pleasants superinting [sic] the arrival of powder CALL NUMBER: DRWG/US - Waud, no. 447 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USC4-12564 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-14653 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [] CREATOR: Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist. NOTES: Signed lower right: AR. Waud. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.447) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file -- 1864. Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
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