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| Lookout and signal Station, Cobb's Hill, Butler's front, Army of the James. |
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Prior to the 9th of June, I had erected a lookout in the neighborhood of two hundred feet high.
It was composed of trestle work, and the illustration will save a further description.
It stood on Cobb's Hill just at the left and near the Appomatox end of my fortifications.
It was a great annoyance to the enemy and of exceeding usefulness to me. There was a nine-foot square space on the top to
which two observers could be drawn up in a large basket by means of a windlass.
Once at the top of this lookout, a large portion of the peninsula, with all the works of the enemy, and my own lines of pickets and fortifications, for the space of more than three miles, lay like a map under my eyes.
Thus the enemy could move no force on the Petersburg turnpike or railroad to or from Richmond without
A. M. Thayer and Co. 1892.
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