Petersburg, Virginia "Essayons Dramatic Club," a group of the U.S. Engineer Battalion

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0384

Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.

Attribution based on photo offered at Cowan's American History sale, June 11, 2010, Lot 32.

Corresponding print is in LOT 4188.

Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov

Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress).

Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865.

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