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Winter camp of 50th N.Y. Engineers, Rappahannock Station – Vintage Wall Art

Winter camp of 50th N.Y. Engineers, Rappahannock Station, 1864 March. — historic photograph
Winter camp of 50th N.Y. Engineers, Rappahannock Station, 1864 March.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Winter camp of 50th N.Y. Engineers, Rappahannock Station

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Winter quarters of the 50th New York Engineers at Rappahannock Station, photographed in March 1864, set this view apart from the many camp scenes of the Army of the Potomac. The regiment's men built and repaired the pontoon bridges that let the army cross rivers such as the Rappahannock, which is why the bridge subject tracing on the caption card fits their work. The Brady-Handy studio, run by Mathew Brady and Levin Handy in Washington, documented the Union army throughout the war, though the details here come from a caption card that has not been independently verified.

Created / published1864 March.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsNo. 276. Civil War Collection - Brady-Handy Studio. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Civil War--Camps; Civil War--Troops; Civil War--Engineers; Bridges, pontoon.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,198 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149670

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