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    Federal Wagons Petersburg

    Came across this image on the LOC:

    Just a moment...
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:589:./temp/~pp_aPCU::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi,lamb


    TITLE: Petersburg, Virginia. The first Federal wagon train enterering the town
    CALL NUMBER: LC-B817- 7172[P&P]
    CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1865 Apr.

    CREATOR:


    Reekie, John, photographer.

    Paul B.
    Paul B. Boulden Jr.


    RAH VA MIL '04
    (Loblolly Mess)
    [URL="http://23rdva.netfirms.com/welcome.htm"]23rd VA Vol. Regt.[/URL]
    [URL="http://www.virginiaregiment.org/The_Virginia_Regiment/Home.html"]Waggoner's Company of the Virginia Regiment [/URL]

    [URL="http://www.military-historians.org/"]Company of Military Historians[/URL]
    [URL="http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer"]Museum of the Confederacy[/URL]
    [URL="http://www.historicsandusky.org/index.html"]Historic Sandusky [/URL]

    Inscription Capt. Archibold Willet headstone:

    "A span is all that we can boast, An inch or two of time, Man is but vanity and dust, In all his flower and prime."
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    Re: Federal Wagons Petersburg

    Paul
    Thanks for posting that. Maybe Mr. Dabney will come around and tell us what street that is. Pull it up on Streetscape and compare!
    Drew Gruber
    Drew

    "God knows, as many posts as go up on this site everyday, there's plenty of folks who know how to type. Put those keyboards to work on a real issue that's tied to the history that we love and obsess over so much." F.B.

    "...mow hay, cut wood, prepare great food, drink schwitzel, knit, sew, spin wool, rock out to a good pinch of snuff and somehow still find time to go fly a kite." N.B.

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    • #3
      Re: Federal Wagons Petersburg

      Here's another Petersburg image:

      "Petersburg, Virginia. Company F 114th Pennsylvania Infantry" LC-B817- 7175[P&P]


      Just a moment...
      http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:1404:./temp/~pp_aPCU::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi,lamb


      CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 Aug.
      Paul B. Boulden Jr.


      RAH VA MIL '04
      (Loblolly Mess)
      [URL="http://23rdva.netfirms.com/welcome.htm"]23rd VA Vol. Regt.[/URL]
      [URL="http://www.virginiaregiment.org/The_Virginia_Regiment/Home.html"]Waggoner's Company of the Virginia Regiment [/URL]

      [URL="http://www.military-historians.org/"]Company of Military Historians[/URL]
      [URL="http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer"]Museum of the Confederacy[/URL]
      [URL="http://www.historicsandusky.org/index.html"]Historic Sandusky [/URL]

      Inscription Capt. Archibold Willet headstone:

      "A span is all that we can boast, An inch or two of time, Man is but vanity and dust, In all his flower and prime."

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      • #4
        Re: Federal Wagons Petersburg

        A great little snippet. Love these guys, taking a break by the side of the road.
        Attached Files
        Jason R. Wickersty
        http://www.newblazingstarpress.com

        Received. “How now about the fifth and sixth guns?”
        Sent. “The sixth gun is the bully boy.”
        Received. “Can you give it any directions to make it more bully?”
        Sent. “Last shot was little to the right.”
        Received. “Fearfully hot here. Several men sunstruck. Bullets whiz like fun. Have ceased firing for awhile, the guns are so hot."

        - O.R.s, Series 1, Volume 26, Part 1, pg 86.

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        • #5
          Re: Federal Wagons Petersburg

          This is Washington Street (where you were about a month ago Drew when you came to the P'burg Ladies' Aid Society event), the camera is pointed east.

          Second Presbyterian Church (completed in 1862) is the church missing its steeple. The church steeple further back but along the street is that of First Baptist Church. The church on the far left is St. Paul's Episcopal Church (1857). All these congregations are still active.

          The image is taken on some high ground along Washington Street, where the image was taken is now a late 19th century neighborhood featuring vernacular, Italinate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival housing.

          The open land off to the right of the image is where Petersburg's only public school was located, Anderson Seminary, headed by Virginia historian, Charles Campbell. Today it is the location of the Appomattox Regional Governor's School (first completed in 1911).

          Where the warehouse is is now late 19th and early 20th century housing. Many of the buildings seen in this image are still standing and part of National Register listed neighborhoods.

          P.S.--Please remember when linking LoC images that the link is only temporary, not permanent. Please link directly to the image for "permanance."
          Sincerely,
          Emmanuel Dabney
          Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society
          http://www.agsas.org

          "God hasten the day when war shall cease, when slavery shall be blotted from the face of the earth, and when, instead of destruction and desolation, peace, prosperity, liberty, and virtue shall rule the earth!"--John C. Brock, Commissary Sergeant, 43d United States Colored Troops

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          • #6
            Re: Federal Wagons Petersburg

            P.S.--Please remember when linking LoC images that the link is only temporary, not permanent. Please link directly to the image for "permanance."
            Mr. Dabney,

            Thanks for this tidbit of info. I thought it was my computer/setting(s) that was not letting me see the pic.

            Perhaps this should be should be part of "Da Rules" for adding Links to Text/Graphics in Posts?
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            2nd Lt. James Ward
            Adjutant
            1st Maryland Artillery (Dement's Battery)

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            • #7
              Re: Federal Wagons Petersburg

              Just a moment...
              http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cwpb/03900/03911v.jpg

              The link to the wagon train photo.
              Peter Koch
              North State Rifles

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