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Charleston S.C. South Battery; dismantled Blakely gun in foreground – Vintage Print

Charleston S.C. South Battery; dismantled Blakely gun in foreground, 1865 — historic photograph
Charleston S.C. South Battery; dismantled Blakely gun in foreground, 1865. Historic photograph from the Charleston 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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Charleston S.C. South Battery; dismantled Blakely gun in foreground comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A dismantled Blakely rifle, a British-made cannon the Confederates relied on for coastal defense, lies in the foreground of this 1865 view of the South Battery in Charleston. Confederate forces abandoned the city in February 1865 as Union troops advanced, and the guns that had guarded its harbor for years were left behind as scrap. David B. Woodbury made the picture as a stereograph, a pair of glass plates meant to be viewed together for a three-dimensional effect. The scene records the war's aftermath in a city where secession had begun in 1860.

Created / published1865
Medium1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Artillery (Weaponry)United States--South Carolina--Charleston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,270 × 1,352 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46146

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