Petersburg Va. Breastworks of the Confederate Fort Mahone (Fort Damnation) – Antique 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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Petersburg Va. Breastworks of the Confederate Fort Mahone (Fort Damnation) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Petersburg Va. Breastworks of the Confederate Fort Mahone (Fort Damnation)
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Fort Mahone, a Confederate earthwork that Union soldiers nicknamed Fort Damnation, stood on the eastern edge of Petersburg, Virginia, where the siege ground on from the summer of 1864 into the spring of 1865. This stereograph records its breastworks in 1865, after Union forces had taken the position near the end of the siege. Photographer James F. Gibson made the pair of glass negatives with the wet collodion process, and the two views were meant to be seen together through a stereoscope to give the earthworks a sense of depth. The view offers a close look at the defenses that once held the Confederate line around the city.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| Medium | 2 negatives (3 plates) : 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. 0423 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. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Forts & fortifications.United States--Virginia--Petersburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,336 × 1,344 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46716 |
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