Fort Monroe Va. Officers of 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Fort Monroe Va. Officers of 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery
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Officers of the 3d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery posed at Fort Monroe, the granite stronghold at Old Point Comfort, Virginia, which stayed in Union hands for the entire Civil War. Its position at the mouth of Hampton Roads made it a key base for blockading Confederate ports and for the Union campaigns on the Virginia peninsula. Heavy artillery regiments like this one manned the fort's massive guns and garrison works rather than marching in the field, so portraits of their officers show a different side of the war. The image was made in 1864 by David B. Woodbury, using a wet collodion glass negative, a process that demanded quick exposures and careful handling.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass 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. 0573 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. Fort Monroe (Va.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865 Forts & fortifications. Artillery (Troops)--Union.United States--Virginia--Fort Monroe. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,714 × 1,358 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46133 |
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