Rappahannock Station Va. Sutlers hut and stockade of 50th New York Engineers – Antique 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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Rappahannock Station Va. Sutlers hut and stockade of 50th New York Engineers comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Rappahannock Station Va. Sutlers hut and stockade of 50th New York Engineers
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At Rappahannock Station in Virginia, a river crossing that changed hands several times during the war, a sutler's hut and a stockade belonging to the 50th New York Engineers stand in view. The engineers, a unit trained to build bridges and fortifications, were in the area in 1864, when the Union army held the line along the river. Sutlers were civilian merchants licensed to sell food, tobacco, paper and other goods to soldiers, so their huts were a familiar sight in any long encampment, and this glass negative preserves the wooden structures in fine detail.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0268 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Sutlers. Engineering.United States--Virginia--Rappahannock Station. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,716 × 1,364 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46635 |
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