Dutch Gap Canal James River Virginia (vicinity). A 10-inch Columbiad gun in Battery – Historic Photograph 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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This rare historic photograph captures Dutch Gap Canal James River Virginia (vicinity). A 10-inch Columbiad gun in Battery in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Dutch Gap Canal James River Virginia (vicinity). A 10-inch Columbiad gun in Battery
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A ten-inch Columbiad sits in a Confederate battery above the Dutch Gap Canal on the James River in Virginia, a spot that mattered because Union forces under Benjamin Butler dug the canal in 1864 and 1865 to shorten the river route past Confederate guns guarding the approach to Richmond. The Columbiad was a large smoothbore muzzle-loader and the standard heavy gun of coastal and river fortifications of the period. Photographs like this one, dated 1865, document the defenses that the Union army had to overcome along the James. The picture was once credited to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is now uncertain.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Confederate Battery on James River Va. above Dutch Gap Canal. A 10 inch Columbrail in Battery Semmes[?] above Farrars Island on the James River Miller vol. 5 p. 133. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,612 px · prints to 17 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48342 |
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