Federal Wagons Petersburg

[Stonewall_Greyfox]

Came across this image on the LOC:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:589:./temp/~pp_aPCU::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,g ottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards ,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi,lamb

TITLE: Petersburg, Virginia. The first Federal wagon train enterering the town
CALL NUMBER: LC-B817- 7172[P&P]
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1865 Apr.

CREATOR:


Reekie, John, photographer.

Paul B.

[Busterbuttonboy]

Paul
Thanks for posting that. Maybe Mr. Dabney will come around and tell us what street that is. Pull it up on Streetscape and compare!
Drew Gruber

[Stonewall_Greyfox]

Here's another Petersburg image:

"Petersburg, Virginia. Company F 114th Pennsylvania Infantry" LC-B817- 7175[P&P]


http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:1404:./temp/~pp_aPCU::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,g ottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards ,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi,lamb

CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 Aug.

[ThehosGendar]

A great little snippet. Love these guys, taking a break by the side of the road.

[Emmanuel Dabney]

This is Washington Street (where you were about a month ago Drew when you came to the P'burg Ladies' Aid Society event), the camera is pointed east.

Second Presbyterian Church (completed in 1862) is the church missing its steeple. The church steeple further back but along the street is that of First Baptist Church. The church on the far left is St. Paul's Episcopal Church (1857). All these congregations are still active.

The image is taken on some high ground along Washington Street, where the image was taken is now a late 19th century neighborhood featuring vernacular, Italinate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival housing.

The open land off to the right of the image is where Petersburg's only public school was located, Anderson Seminary, headed by Virginia historian, Charles Campbell. Today it is the location of the Appomattox Regional Governor's School (first completed in 1911).

Where the warehouse is is now late 19th and early 20th century housing. Many of the buildings seen in this image are still standing and part of National Register listed neighborhoods.

P.S.--Please remember when linking LoC images that the link is only temporary, not permanent. Please link directly to the image for "permanance."

[A Baltimore Confederate]

P.S.--Please remember when linking LoC images that the link is only temporary, not permanent. Please link directly to the image for "permanance."

Mr. Dabney,

Thanks for this tidbit of info. I thought it was my computer/setting(s) that was not letting me see the pic.

Perhaps this should be should be part of "Da Rules" for adding Links to Text/Graphics in Posts?

[shubal]

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cwpb/03900/03911v.jpg
The link to the wagon train photo.
http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cwpb/03900/03911v.jpg