Item — Box: 3.a, Folder: 32
Rear of Fort Sedgwick,, (circa 1865?)
Dates
- (circa 1865?)
Scope and Contents
Image Number: (79.a)
4¼" x 6½"
"built by W.A. Roebling during the war Petersburg" written in pencil on recto
"View from rear of the right or East half of Ft. Sedgwick "Hell" on the Petersburg finest(?) "Hell's" Half Acre in the middle ground illegible the illegible break works - Hell's Half Acre was where the Confederate Mortar shells dropped and buried themselves in the soft mud unless they exploded before striking" written in black ink on verso. "Col-Started by W. A. Roebling" written in pencil on verso
[received as enclosures in letter to Washington A. Roebling from W. P. Hopkins, dated 19 February 1894] written in pencil on verso
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English
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