James River Va. Confederate gun emplacement at Howlett House Trents Reach – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: James River Va. Confederate gun emplacement at Howlett House Trents Reach, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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James River Va. Confederate gun emplacement at Howlett House Trents Reach
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The Howlett House stood on a bluff above Trents Reach, a bend in the James River downstream from Richmond. Confederate engineers fortified the ground as part of the defenses guarding the approach to the Confederate capital, and the position became known as the Howlett Line. Union forces seized it in 1864, and this 1865 view by photographer James F. Gibson shows a gun emplacement left in the works after the fighting. Made as a glass stereograph using the wet collodion process, it was meant to be seen as a pair, giving the earthworks a sense of depth.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0348 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Forts & fortifications.United States--Virginia--James River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,336 × 1,366 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46710 |
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