Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Confederate fortifications reinforced with bales of c – Vintage Wall Art
(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). Confederate fortifications reinforced with bales of c 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). Confederate fortifications reinforced with bales of c
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Cotton bales stacked into earthworks at Yorktown, Virginia, make this one of the more unusual defenses of the Civil War. The caption on the negative sleeve reads "King Cotton," a nod to the Southern staple that the Confederacy had hoped would win foreign support. In spring 1862, Union forces under George B. McClellan besieged the Confederate lines here during the Peninsula Campaign, and such improvised works show how short the Confederacy was of conventional fortification materials. The image survives as a stereograph pair, made as two glass negatives taken by photographer David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: King Cotton at Yorktown Va. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,779 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51722 |
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