The Dictator

The Dictator – sea coast mortor used in the siege of Petersburg, Virginia in 1864

Title: Petersburg, Va. The “Dictator”
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865; MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass, wet collodion; CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1864 October; Photographer: David Knox; Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress); Digital image at LOC: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.03851