Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Federal soldiers in Confederate battery (protected wi – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Federal soldiers in Confederate battery (protected wi comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Federal soldiers in Confederate battery (protected wi
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A two-gun battery dug into earthworks south of Yorktown, Virginia, sits at the center of this stereograph pair, with sandbag revetments and a 32-pounder beside a 24-pounder siege piece. The record calls the work Confederate, but the title describes Federal soldiers occupying it, which fits the town's changing hands during the Peninsula Campaign. Confederates had fortified Yorktown in 1861 and held it until early May 1862, when they withdrew before Union forces under George B. McClellan. The firm of E. & H.T. Anthony issued the pair as stereographs, meant to be viewed together through a hand viewer for a three-dimensional effect.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Sandbag fortifications at Yorktown Va. Two gun Confederate Battery in entrenchments south of Yorktown Near gun 32 pdr. Navy far gun 24 pdr. seige piece; Similar: Miller vol. 1 p. 265. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 5,096 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52832 |
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