Chattanooga Tenn. Confederate prisoners at railroad depot – Historic 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: Chattanooga Tenn. Confederate prisoners at railroad depot, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Chattanooga Tenn. Confederate prisoners at railroad depot
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Few places in the Civil War changed hands as often as Chattanooga, and this stereograph shows one of its quieter consequences: Confederate prisoners waiting at the railroad depot after the Union took the city in 1863. The scene was made in 1864 by the E. & H.T. Anthony firm, a New York company that sold stereo views to a broad public hungry for images of the war. Because the two plates form a stereo pair, the men and buildings appear with depth when viewed through a stereoscope. The depot mattered because the rail line was the Union's supply and transfer route, and prisoners were moved along it toward northern camps.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0683 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Prisoners--Confederate. Chattanooga Battle of Chattanooga Tenn. 1863.United States--Tennessee--Chattanooga. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,436 × 1,372 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46509 |
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