Stockade and entrance to camp of 50th New York Engineers, Rappahannock Station, Va. – Historic 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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Step back in time with Stockade and entrance to camp of 50th New York Engineers, Rappahannock Station, Va., 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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Stockade and entrance to camp of 50th New York Engineers, Rappahannock Station, Va.
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The gate and stockade of a fortified camp are the focus here, a reminder that the 50th New York Engineers spent as much time building as fighting. Raised in New York, the regiment served with the Army of the Potomac, and in March 1864 it was stationed at Rappahannock Station, a river crossing in northern Virginia that had changed hands during the fall campaigns of 1863. Log stockades like this one guarded the camp's approaches and show how engineer troops applied their skills to their own defense. The caption card's details are unverified, so treat the layout as a record of the site rather than a precise survey.
| Created / published | 1864 March. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | No. 351. Civil War Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Civil War--Troops; Civil War--Camps; Civil War--Engineers; Forts and Fortifications. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,214 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149668 |
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