Brandy Station Virginia (vicinity). Headquarters 1st Brigade Horse Artillery – Antique 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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A window into the past: Brandy Station Virginia (vicinity). Headquarters 1st Brigade Horse Artillery, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Brandy Station Virginia (vicinity). Headquarters 1st Brigade Horse Artillery
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Few places in Virginia saw more cavalry activity than the rail junction at Brandy Station, and this glass negative records the headquarters of the 1st Brigade Horse Artillery nearby in February 1864. The camp lay in Culpeper County, where the Army of the Potomac wintered after the fighting of 1863, including the June battle there, the largest cavalry engagement of the war in North America. The plate is a wet collodion negative, a process that required photographers to coat and expose the glass while it was still wet. An older attribution credited Alexander Gardner, the Scottish-born photographer, though that link is no longer assumed.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Headquarters 1st Brigade Horse Artillery Brandy Station (vicinity) February 1864. Annotation from negative glass side: 24/3/8/10 Gibson 11. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,083 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47178 |
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