Bealton Virginia. Company K 93d New York Infantry. (Morgan Rifles) – Vintage 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 Bealton Virginia. Company K 93d New York Infantry. (Morgan Rifles) in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Bealton Virginia. Company K 93d New York Infantry. (Morgan Rifles)
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The subject here is Company K of the 93rd New York Infantry, a unit nicknamed the Morgan Rifles, photographed at Bealton, Virginia, in August 1863. That summer the Army of the Potomac was resting and reorganizing in Fauquier County after the Gettysburg campaign, and camps like this one were common across the region. The picture survives as a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required the photographer to coat, expose, and develop each plate on the spot. The collection's records note that the image was once credited to Alexander Gardner, a leading Civil War photographer, though that attribution has since been questioned.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Co. K 93rd N. Y. Infantry Beaton Va. August 1863. Annotation from negative glass side: Co K 93rd NY Aug 1863 28. 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 × 4,166 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47118 |
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