Culpeper Va. Battery A 4th U.S. Artillery Robertsons Brigade – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Culpeper Va. Battery A 4th U.S. Artillery Robertsons Brigade. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Culpeper Va. Battery A 4th U.S. Artillery Robertsons Brigade
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This photograph shows Battery A, 4th U.S. Artillery, posed at Culpeper, Virginia, a crossroads town in the Piedmont that changed hands and filled with troops several times during the war. The record ties the battery to Robertson's Brigade and dates the image to 1863, a year when Union and Confederate armies repeatedly moved through this region. The picture was made from a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required photographers to coat and expose plates quickly, so field images of this kind are valued as early records of how artillery units looked on campaign. The photographer is listed as James F. Gibson, born 1828.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0231 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865.United States--Virginia--Culpeper. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,680 × 1,326 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52877 |
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