Horse artillery on parade grounds – Historic 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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Horse artillery on parade grounds 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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Horse artillery on parade grounds
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Horse artillery, the light field guns pulled by teams that could keep pace with cavalry, is the subject here, shown on a parade ground in 1861, the first year of the Civil War. The photographer, James F. Gibson, was a Washington-area photographer born in 1828 who documented Union troops and camps in the early war years. Photographs like this one were rare in 1861, since wet-plate processing required heavy equipment and a darkroom close at hand. The image gives a sense of how much of the army's mobility depended on draft horses and teams long before motorized transport.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | Horse artillery--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,222 × 2,252 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51940 |
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