Robert Gray
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2012
Federal Battery No. 8 in front of Petersburg, Va., 1864.
Photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan.
Manned by Company "I" of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, under Captain John H. Barton, who is standing on the parapet in the photo. The guns are 30-pounder Parrotts commanded by Sergeants William B. Atwood, Ezekiel Buxton and William H. Waldron.
Credits:
National Archives (NARA-524748) and (111-B-329).
History of the First Connecticut Artillery and of the Siege Trains Of The Armies operating
Against Richmond 1862-1865. Hartford, Conn., Press Of The Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1893.
Petersburg National Battlefield, National Park Service.
On June 15, 1864, after seizing Battery 5, Union troops swept southward along the Dimmock Line. Men of the 1st and 22nd Colored Troops captured Battery 8, overcoming heavy resistance from part of Brig. Gen. Henry A. Wise's Virginia brigade. By the morning of June 16, the 1.5 miles of Confederate works between Batteries 3 and 11 were in Union hands.
After capturing this section of the Dimmock Line, the Federals incorporated parts of it, including Battery 8, into a second line of siege works. Battery 8 would see combat only one more time, when Union guns here helped repel the Confederate breakthrough at Fort Stedman in March 1865.
Photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan.
Manned by Company "I" of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, under Captain John H. Barton, who is standing on the parapet in the photo. The guns are 30-pounder Parrotts commanded by Sergeants William B. Atwood, Ezekiel Buxton and William H. Waldron.
Credits:
National Archives (NARA-524748) and (111-B-329).
History of the First Connecticut Artillery and of the Siege Trains Of The Armies operating
Against Richmond 1862-1865. Hartford, Conn., Press Of The Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1893.
Petersburg National Battlefield, National Park Service.
On June 15, 1864, after seizing Battery 5, Union troops swept southward along the Dimmock Line. Men of the 1st and 22nd Colored Troops captured Battery 8, overcoming heavy resistance from part of Brig. Gen. Henry A. Wise's Virginia brigade. By the morning of June 16, the 1.5 miles of Confederate works between Batteries 3 and 11 were in Union hands.
After capturing this section of the Dimmock Line, the Federals incorporated parts of it, including Battery 8, into a second line of siege works. Battery 8 would see combat only one more time, when Union guns here helped repel the Confederate breakthrough at Fort Stedman in March 1865.
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