Brandy Station Virginia?. Officers quarters – Historic Photograph 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 Brandy Station Virginia?. Officers quarters. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Brandy Station Virginia?. Officers quarters
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Brandy Station, in Culpeper County, Virginia, is best known for the cavalry battle fought there in June 1863, one of the largest mounted engagements of the war. By 1864 the area was under Union control and filled with Army of the Potomac camps, and these officers' quarters belong to that setting. The title carries a question mark because the exact location is uncertain. The image is a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required exposing and developing the plate while it was still wet. Earlier catalogers credited the picture to Alexander Gardner, a leading Civil War photographer, but that attribution has since been revised.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. 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 × 4,059 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47215 |
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