James River Va. Butlers dredge-boat sunk by a Confederate shell on Thanksgiving Day – Historic 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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This historic photograph of James River Va. Butlers dredge-boat sunk by a Confederate shell on Thanksgiving Day brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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James River Va. Butlers dredge-boat sunk by a Confederate shell on Thanksgiving Day
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A dredge boat sunk by a Confederate shell on Thanksgiving Day sets this stereograph apart from the other river views on this board. The work was tied to Benjamin Butler's Army of the James, which was digging a canal at Dutch Gap to bypass a bend in the river that Confederate guns covered. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, recorded Union operations in Virginia during the war as a stereo pair. The catalog dates the image to 1860, but the title and subject headings point to late 1864.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 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. 0332 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Naval operations. Wilderness Battle of the Va. 1864. Government vessels. Naval warfare.United States--Virginia--James River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,336 × 1,362 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51802 |
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