Yorktown Va. Confederate fortifications with large gun – 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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Step back in time with Yorktown Va. Confederate fortifications with large gun, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Yorktown Va. Confederate fortifications with large gun
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The picture shows Confederate earthworks at Yorktown, Virginia, with a large siege gun mounted behind the defenses. In the spring of 1862, Yorktown sat at the center of Union Gen. George B. McClellan's advance up the Virginia Peninsula toward Richmond. The siege lasted from early April until the Confederates pulled out in early May, and the fortifications and heavy guns along the York River were among the most closely studied features of the campaign. The image is a glass stereograph made with the wet collodion process, so it was meant to be seen through a stereoscope, which gives the earthworks and guns a sense of depth. It was made by James F. Gibson, a photographer who worked in the field during the Peninsula Campaign.
| Created / published | 1862 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph 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. 0040 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Peninsular Campaign 1862. Forts & fortifications.United States--Virginia--Yorktown. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,734 × 1,362 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46748 |
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