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[13 inch mortar Dictator" in front of Petersburg VA mounted on railroad car]" – Historic Reproduction

[13 inch mortar Dictator" in front of Petersburg VA mounted on railroad car]", [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[13 inch mortar Dictator" in front of Petersburg VA mounted on railroad car]", [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

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The gun in this photograph is a 13-inch mortar nicknamed "Dictator," shown on a railroad car in front of Petersburg, Virginia. Union forces used such railway-mounted siege guns during the long siege of Petersburg, which lasted from June 1864 to April 1865, to bombard Confederate lines from positions behind their own trenches. The caption card gives no date, but the setting places the scene within that campaign. The photograph shows how the Army moved heavy artillery by rail so it could be shifted along the front.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War--Battlefields--Petersburg; Civil War--Railroads; Civil War--Artillery; Shelf.
Original scan1,536 × 1,305 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138967

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