North Anna River Virginia. Cavalry crossing Chesterfield bridge – 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 North Anna River Virginia. Cavalry crossing Chesterfield bridge. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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North Anna River Virginia. Cavalry crossing Chesterfield bridge
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A column of cavalry crosses the Chesterfield Bridge over the North Anna River in Virginia, and the caption places a rifle pit in the foreground with enemy works visible in the distance. The catalog dates the negative to 1861, but the North Anna crossings are best known from the Overland Campaign of May 1864, when Union and Confederate forces fought along this line. The image survives as two glass plates forming a stereograph pair, meant to be viewed together for a three-dimensional effect. David B. Woodbury is credited as the photographer, and he died in 1866.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Chesterfield Bridge on North Anna with cavalry crossing. Rifle pit in the foreground enemies works in the distance. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,149 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52727 |
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