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Unknown [List of guns in battery in Petersburg and City Point defences, Virginia]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02382.230 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Virginia Type: Document Date: circa 1864-1865 Pagination: 1 p. ; 31.9 x 20.3 cm. Order a Copy

Cites numerical or other designation of batteries, names of battery commanders, and number of guns and mortars per battery.

In the collection of Henry Jackson Hunt, who served as Chief of Artillery for the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.

Hunt, Henry Jackson, 1819-1889

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