Union soldiers posing as if fighting from behind gabion defenses in front of Fort Mahone, April 1865. Probably taken after the fighting considering the line of soldiers standing in line out in the open in the background in two of the photographs. Animated stereoscopic photographs.
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This site has been identified!
ReplyDeleteA regimental history of the 4th Rhode Island Regiment had pictures of the site in 1865 and about 30 years later
Likewise this site has been located and identified:
See website "The Rebel in the Road" [Copyrighted]
http://www.petersburgproject.org/the-rebel-in-the-road.html