Yorktown Virginia. Naval battery with Nelson church in background used as a hospita – Historic Photograph 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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Yorktown Virginia. Naval battery with Nelson church in background used as a hospita comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Yorktown Virginia. Naval battery with Nelson church in background used as a hospita
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Few views from the Peninsula campaign show a military position and a church together as clearly as this one. The caption names a naval battery at Yorktown, Virginia, with the Nelson church behind it, and notes that the church was then serving as a hospital. Union forces had taken Yorktown in May 1862 after Confederate troops withdrew, and McClellan's army used the town as a supply and staging point through that summer. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, made this image on a glass wet-collodion negative, a method that required the operator to coat, expose, and develop the plate quickly on site.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Naval Battery Yorktown with Nelson Church now used as a Hospital. July 1 1862. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,104 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51760 |
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