Petersburg Va. Dead Confederate soldier in trench beyond a section of chevaux-de-fr – 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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Petersburg Va. Dead Confederate soldier in trench beyond a section of chevaux-de-fr
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A Confederate soldier lies dead in a trench beyond a chevaux-de-frise, the barrier of sharpened timbers meant to stop infantry charges, in this view of Petersburg, Virginia. The image is a stereograph, made from two glass plates so that viewers with a stereoscope saw the trench in depth, and it was published by the War Photograph and Exhibition Company. Petersburg held out for about ten months of siege warfare in 1864 and 1865 before Confederate lines broke in early April 1865. Photographers who followed the armies recorded the ground that fighting left behind, and scenes like this one carried the war's human cost to viewers far from the front.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph 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. 0426 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--Casualties--Confederate. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. War casualties.United States--Virginia--Petersburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,310 × 1,362 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52221 |
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