Confederate fortifications Yorktown Va. – Antique Photo 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 historic photograph of Confederate fortifications Yorktown Va. brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Confederate fortifications Yorktown Va.
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Yorktown, Virginia, is the particular place here, and the stereo card shows Confederate earthworks there in 1862, part of the defenses built along the Peninsula to slow Union forces advancing toward Richmond. That spring, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac laid siege to Yorktown, and the Confederate line it faced relied on heavy guns set behind earth parapets. The card belongs to the War Photograph and Exhibition Company's series, issued as stereoviews so viewers could see the works in depth through a hand viewer. Its artillery subject reflects how much of the early war's fighting turned on fortified positions like this one.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 458. The war for the Union photographic history. · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | Artillery (Weaponry)--Virginia--Yorktown--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment & supplies. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,283 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269930 |
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