City Point Virginia. Cattle for the Army of the Potomac – 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 City Point Virginia. Cattle for the Army of the Potomac, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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City Point Virginia. Cattle for the Army of the Potomac
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Few wartime views show the army's food supply as plainly as this one, which records a herd of cattle gathered for the Army of the Potomac at City Point, Virginia, a landing on the James River. The record dates the negative to 1861, but City Point became the Union's major supply base in 1864 and 1865, when Ulysses S. Grant made it his headquarters, so that date deserves a second look. Armies of the period often moved with live cattle that were slaughtered as needed, so herds like this one were essential to keeping troops fed. The picture survives as a stereograph, a pair of plates meant to be viewed through a hand stereoscope to give the scene a sense of depth.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Cattle for the Army of the Potomac. 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 × 5,112 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47753 |
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