Evacuation of Port Royal, Va., May 30, 1864 – Historic Print
![Evacuation of Port Royal, Va., May 30, 1864, Hartford, Conn. : Taylor & Huntington, 1864, [printed later] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7f/7f9f2c092458-L.webp)
(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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Evacuation of Port Royal, Va., May 30, 1864
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Port Royal is a small river town on the Rappahannock in Virginia, and this stereograph records the Union withdrawal from it on May 30, 1864, during the Overland Campaign, when Union forces were pushing south toward Richmond. The card was issued by the Hartford firm of Taylor & Huntington, but the record notes it was printed later, in the 1890s, from an original wartime glass negative. Stereographs like this were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave the scene a sense of depth and made troop movements seem immediate to home audiences.
| Created / published | Hartford, Conn. : Taylor & Huntington, 1864, [printed later] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). The war for the Union, photographic war history. No. 2492. |
| Subjects | Troop movements--Union--Virginia--Port Royal--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,292 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-194550 |
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