U. S. CORPS OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS

Maps and images of Batteries Robinett and Williams
and construction images of
Battery Powellinett

	IMAGES OF BATTERY POWELLINETT CONSTRUCTION
	Panoramic view of the interior of the battery as of June, showing finished revetment.
	Panorama of rear of battery showing the southern breastworks on the right, covered way and battery interior in the center, and the northern breastworks to the left.
	Panorama of interior of battery.  Rear opening of covered way is visible on far right and left of image.
	Elevated panorama showing from left to right:  northern breastworks, covered way, battery interior, ditch in front of battery, and southern breastworks.
	180 degree panorama showing from left:  rifle pits east and southeast of battery complex and covered way west of battery.
	View of the front of the battery from the east, rifle pit in the foreground.  Not visible is the twenty feet wide, six feet deep ditch in front of the parapet.
	BATTERY "POWELLINETT" PLANS
	Plan view of 5-gun battery with dimensions.
	Detail of placement of Battery "Powellinett" on Corinth 2005 property.  Geometry of the battery and covered way has been changed from the original in order to use the design for both Batteries Powell and Robinett and to fit the site.  A total of five embrasures have been constructed, and the length of the covered way has been shortened drastically from the original.   Battery Williams is located in the northwest corner on a low knoll.
	Plan of the finished Battery Powellinett complex.
	Detail of battery construction.
	CONCEPTUAL MODELS
	Views of proposed Battery Powellinett
	HISTORICAL MAPS AND IMAGES
	1   Plan of batteries showing distances and relative geometry
	2  A portion of the map Field Fortifications Around Corinth, Miss. -- Also exhibiting the Rebel entrenchments and the approaches of the U.S. forces during May 1862, by Captain Fred Prime.  The original map was drafted with South to the top.  This portion has been rotated so that it reads correctly.
	3  A larger section of the map Field Fortifications Around Corinth, Miss. -- Also exhibiting the Rebel entrenchments and the approaches of the U.S. forces during May 1862, by Captain Fred Prime.  This image is un-rotated, so that North is to the bottom.  Batteries Powell, Williams, and Robinett are shown, as well as the extent of the felled-tree abatis. The map includes the Braton property to the west (lower right) which Charles Cowell indicates in the map in his diary as having cannon.
	4  Corinth and vicinity.  A map by Charles H. Budd, Private, Company B, 2nd Iowa Infantry, July 4, 1863.  The outline of Battery Robinett differs from the official map (above), but is similar to archeological findings.  The archeological findings have, most likely, been misinterpreted.
	5  View of Batteries Robinett (to the right of railroad)  and Williams (to the left of the rails) looking westward from the vicinity of the rail crossing just east of town.  Union camps are seen at right.
	6  Another view of the batteries taken north of (3). Structure in foreground is train platform.
	7  Battery Robinett (?) looking westward.
	8  Later (post-war) image taken just to the west of (5), looking eastward toward Corinth.
	9  Looking eastward across covered way of Battery Robinett  Covered way is the structure seen extending southeastward from Battery Robinett to the rail line in the map (1).  It consists of a 25 - 30 foot wide corridor protected by earthworks and ditches on both sides.
	10  Looking southeast from vicinity of battery along covered way.
	11  Near southern end of covered way looking northwestward toward Battery Robinett.
	12  Taken just east of (11), showing outer wall of covered way
	13  Lithograph of union trenches in the vicinity of Corinth

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