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Mortar Dictator, in Front of Petersburg

Date

October 1864

Medium

Albumen silver print

Culture

American

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

View of a large mortar on a wooden platform built atop a railroad truck. A group of soldiers stand on the platform behind the mortar, as a smaller group sit and stand on mortar shells to the left. The tracks of the Petersburg Railroad extend out from beneath the platform.

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