Petersburg Gas Works and rubble of smokestack. [April 1865 ca.]

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GLC#
GLC05111.01.0397-View header record
Type
Images
Date
1865/04 ca.
Title
Petersburg Gas Works and rubble of smokestack. [April 1865 ca.]
Place Written
Petersburg, Virginia
Pagination
1 photograph Height: 10.8 cm, Width: 12.7 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Title from inscription on verso. Image of what remains of the Gas Works building with gaping holes, caused by artillery fire, in its walls. The pile of bricks in the foreground is all that remains of the once-famous 80-foot-tall somkestack. Federal artillery used it for target practice until it finally collapsed. Numeric notation: "1021 XI - IV."

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