Cedar Level Va. Commissary depot with supply train wagons – 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 Cedar Level Va. Commissary depot with supply train wagons in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cedar Level Va. Commissary depot with supply train wagons
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Cedar Level, Virginia, was a Union commissary depot where supply wagons gathered during the 1864 campaign against Petersburg, and this view shows the wagon train that kept the army fed. Mathew Brady's studio made the image on a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required photographers to prepare and expose each plate quickly on site. Armies besieging Petersburg depended on such wagon trains to move rations, forage and equipment from the railroad lines to the front. The scene shows how much of the war's logistics ran on animal power and long, slow lines of wagons.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass 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. 0398 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Brady Mathew B. 1823 (ca.)-1896 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Wagon trains.United States--Virginia--Cedar Level. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,670 × 1,354 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52873 |
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