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Railroad battery before Petersburg – Antique Print

Railroad battery before Petersburg, [between 1864 and 1865] — historic photograph
Railroad battery before Petersburg, [between 1864 and 1865]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(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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This rare historic photograph captures Railroad battery before Petersburg in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A railroad battery stands before Petersburg, Virginia, in this stereograph from the siege of 1864 and 1865. Both armies used rail-mounted artillery, which let heavy guns move along existing tracks and fire from prepared positions. Stereo cards like this one, made of two slightly offset views meant to be seen together through a viewer, brought distant battlefields into parlors. The caption data is unverified, so the exact unit and location are worth checking against other sources.

Created / published[between 1864 and 1865]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 867 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-108471

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