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Officers' circle, [National] Military Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss. – Historic Reproduction

Officers' circle, [National] Military Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss., c1906. — historic photograph
Officers' circle, [National] Military Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss., c1906.. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Officers' circle, [National] Military Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Vicksburg National Cemetery, on the bluffs above the Mississippi River, holds the Union dead from the 1863 siege of Vicksburg, and this view shows its officers' circle, the section set aside for commissioned officers. The cemetery was established after the Civil War, when the federal government gathered scattered battlefield burials into permanent national grounds, and many of the graves there belong to soldiers who could not be identified. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued travel views of American landscapes and monuments around 1906, sold scenes like this to tourists visiting battlefields and memorial sites.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 3810" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019404. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCemeteries.United States--Mississippi--Vicksburg National Cemetery.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62809

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