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Officers of U.S. Horse Artillery, Army of the Potomac, Culpeper, Va. Sep. 1863 – Historic Reproduction

Officers of U.S. Horse Artillery, Army of the Potomac, Culpeper, Va. Sep. 1863, [photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed later] — historic photograph
Officers of U.S. Horse Artillery, Army of the Potomac, Culpeper, Va. Sep. 1863, [photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed later]. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(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 Officers of U.S. Horse Artillery, Army of the Potomac, Culpeper, Va. Sep. 1863 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Officers of U.S. Horse Artillery, Army of the Potomac, Culpeper, Va. Sep. 1863

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Culpeper, Virginia, was a staging ground for the Army of the Potomac in the fall of 1863, and this group portrait records a set of officers from its horse artillery, a branch that moved its cannon at a gallop behind teams of horses. The title places them in September 1863, a few months after Gettysburg, when the army was regrouping in the region. Horse artillery depended on mounted men and well-matched teams, so the officers' posture and the setting of the camp reflect a unit whose effectiveness rested on animals as much as on guns. The photograph is one of the Civil War images cataloged by the Library of Congress, which has made such camp portraits a useful record of how the officer corps presented itself during the war.

Created / published[photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed later]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1870.Group portraits 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1910.
NotesCivil War Photograph Collection. No. 83.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. Military officers--Union--Virginia--Culpeper--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,287 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-191882

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