Petersburg Virginia. Interior view of Fort Sedgwick – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Petersburg Virginia. Interior view of Fort Sedgwick, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Petersburg Virginia. Interior view of Fort Sedgwick
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Few places on the Petersburg lines were as dangerous as Fort Sedgwick, which Union soldiers nicknamed "Fort Hell" because it sat within close range of Confederate guns during the siege. This stereograph shows the fort's interior in 1865, near the end of the nine-month siege. Photographer David B. Woodbury made the image as two side-by-side glass plates, which viewers placed in a stereoscope to see the scene in depth. The wet collodion process required quick preparation and development, so views like this one are a record of the cramped, earthen-walled ground where soldiers lived under fire.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Interior view of Ft. Sedgwick Petersburg 1865. 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 | 5,074 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50578 |
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