Brandy Station Va. Capt. James M. Robertson and staff 1st Brigade Horse Artillery – Historic Photograph 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Brandy Station Va. Capt. James M. Robertson and staff 1st Brigade Horse Artillery. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Brandy Station Va. Capt. James M. Robertson and staff 1st Brigade Horse Artillery
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Brandy Station, in Culpeper County, Virginia, was the site of the largest cavalry battle fought in North America, in June 1863. This 1864 photograph shows Capt. James M. Robertson with the staff of the 1st Brigade Horse Artillery, mounted gun units that moved quickly with the cavalry. The image is a glass negative made by the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat, expose and develop each plate before it dried, so the sitting had to be planned carefully. Photographer James F. Gibson made the picture, and it is one of many group portraits of officers that field photographers produced during the war.
| Created / published | 1864 |
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| 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. 0257 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel. Horse artillery. Robertson James M.United States--Virginia--Brandy Station. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,742 × 1,360 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51934 |
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