Poplar Grove Va. Log church built by the 50th New York Engineers with the engineer – Vintage 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 Poplar Grove Va. Log church built by the 50th New York Engineers with the engineer. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Poplar Grove Va. Log church built by the 50th New York Engineers with the engineer
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Soldiers of the 50th New York Engineers built this log church at Poplar Grove, Virginia, a rare case of a wartime unit raising a place of worship in the middle of a campaign. The regiment spent much of the war constructing roads, bridges, and fortifications, and the area southwest of Petersburg, where the armies fought through 1864 and into 1865, was dense with such work. The picture is a wet collodion glass negative from 1865, a process that required the photographer to coat and expose the plate before it dried. Images like this show how the siege reshaped rural communities around Petersburg, not only the front lines.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0413 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Engineering. Churches. 50th New York Engineers.United States--Virginia--Poplar Grove. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,122 × 1,362 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-45982 |
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