Chattanooga Tennessee (vicinity). Blockhouse on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroa – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Chattanooga Tennessee (vicinity). Blockhouse on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroa, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Chattanooga Tennessee (vicinity). Blockhouse on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroa
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A blockhouse standing beside the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad is the particular subject here, a squat timber fort built to guard the line and its bridges and trestles. The caption on the negative sleeve says the blockhouses were garrisoned against Wheeler's Cavalry, the Confederate raiders under Joseph Wheeler who repeatedly struck Union supply lines in Tennessee during 1864. Railroads like this one were the lifeblood of Union forces around Chattanooga, so small guard posts such as this were a common sight along the route. The picture survives as a stereograph pair on two glass plates, a format that let viewers see the scene in depth through a stereoscope.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Block houses garrisoned against Wheelers Cavalry (Vicinity of Chattanooga Tenn.). 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 × 5,046 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47710 |
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