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Washington D.C. vicinity. 17th New York Battery with horses harnessed to guns – Antique Wall Art

Washington D.C. vicinity. 17th New York Battery with horses harnessed to guns, 1863 — historic photograph
Washington D.C. vicinity. 17th New York Battery with horses harnessed to guns, 1863. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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Washington D.C. vicinity. 17th New York Battery with horses harnessed to guns comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The detail that sets this picture apart is its subject: a battery of the 17th New York Light Artillery, photographed with its horses still harnessed to the guns, somewhere in the countryside around Washington, D.C. In 1863 the Union capital was ringed by fortifications and camps, and batteries like this one were kept ready to move at short notice, so a picture of teams hitched and waiting captures the restless readiness of the defenses. Wet collodion glass negatives such as this were the standard technology of the period, and they required photographers to work quickly with heavy equipment in the field. The image is a useful record of how Union field artillery was organized and horsed during the war.

Created / published1863
Medium1 negative : glass wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0787 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel. Artillery (Troops)--Union. 17th New York Battery.United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,750 × 1,374 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-45962

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