Officers of 61st New York Infantry, Falmouth, Va., April 1863 – Historic Reproduction
![Officers of 61st New York Infantry, Falmouth, Va., April 1863, [photographed 1863, printed later] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/38/38ea61d09788-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with Officers of 61st New York Infantry, Falmouth, Va., April 1863, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Officers of 61st New York Infantry, Falmouth, Va., April 1863
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The subject here is the officers of the 61st New York Infantry, posed together at Falmouth, Virginia, in April 1863. Falmouth sat across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg and served as the main Union camp area for the Army of the Potomac through the winter and spring of 1863, just before the Chancellorsville campaign. Officers often sat for group portraits like this one to mark their unit's identity and to send home to families, and photographers working in the camps made many such images. The print was made later than the exposure, so its surviving impression reflects the photographic process of its time as much as the moment it records.
| Created / published | [photographed 1863, printed later] |
|---|---|
| Genre | Group portraits 1860-1870.Portrait photographs 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1910. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 530. |
| Subjects | Infantry--Union--Virginia--Falmouth--1860-1870. Military officers--Union--Virginia--Falmouth--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,083 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-166406 |
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