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Description: Capture of Kinston, North Carolina. "This scene is located after the battle. Morrison's Battery is firing on the town : the troops are passing over the bridge, and forming their lines on the meadow. The "earthwork" is seen in the foreground, with soldiers engaged in filling their canteens from the river." "Sketched by Private Merrill G. Wheelock of Company F, Fortyfourth Regiment. ... Painted in oil for Col. Lee, and photographed. The heliotypes in this volume are reduced from the photographs."
Title: Capture of Kinston byMerrillGWheelock 43rdRegimentMassachusetts
Credit: Edward H. Rogers. Reminiscences of military service in the Forty-third regiment, Massachusetts infantry, during the great Civil war, 1862-63. Boston: Franklin press, Rand, Avery, & co., 1883
Author: M.G. Wheelock
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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