Fort Monroe Va. 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery on parade – 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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Fort Monroe Va. 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery on parade comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Fort Monroe Va. 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery on parade
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Fort Monroe, on the tip of the Virginia peninsula at Hampton Roads, was one of the few Southern coastal forts that stayed in Union hands throughout the war, and it became a major supply and staging base. This 1864 glass negative by David B. Woodbury shows the 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery drawn up on parade there. Heavy artillery regiments of this kind usually garrisoned fixed fortifications rather than marching in the field, so the scene captures the routine, disciplined side of the war that the fort's defenders lived with daily.
| 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. 0574 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. Fort Monroe (Va.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865 Forts & fortifications. Artillery (Troops)--Union.United States--Virginia--Fort Monroe. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,738 × 1,364 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46132 |
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