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Battlefield of the Wilderness". Palmer's field on Orange Turnpike - Confederate entrenchments at edge of woods" – Antique Wall Art

Battlefield of the Wilderness". Palmer's field on Orange Turnpike - Confederate entrenchments at edge of woods", [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Battlefield of the Wilderness". Palmer's field on Orange Turnpike - Confederate entrenchments at edge of woods", [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Battlefield of the Wilderness". Palmer's field on Orange Turnpike - Confederate entrenchments at edge of woods"

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Confederate earthworks rise along the edge of the woods at Palmer's field, on the Orange Turnpike, in this view of the Battle of the Wilderness. That fight in early May 1864 took place in dense second-growth scrub, where visibility was so poor that units often lost their bearings and brush fires swept over wounded men. The record gives no date for the exposure, but the hasty entrenchments reflect the defensive digging both armies carried out as the battle unfolded. Because the picture belongs to Mathew Brady's collection, it offers a rare look at field fortifications in Virginia's wooded terrain.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsMathew Brady Coll. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: CW-- Battlefields; Civil War-- Fortifications - Virginia; Shelf.
Original scan1,536 × 1,409 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130008

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