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Confederate Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia] – Antique Wall Art

Confederate Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Confederate Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Courthouses 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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Few crossroads in Virginia saw as much fighting as Spotsylvania Court House, and this print shows Confederate earthworks built near the junction of the old and new Court House Roads. The caption card gives no date, but the fortifications belong to the Overland Campaign of May 1864, when Union and Confederate armies fought for days around the county seat. Trenches and breastworks like these were dug quickly and defined the fighting in this region, so the picture shows how the ground was shaped for defense. It is one of five photographs mounted together in the Library of Congress's Civil War collection.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
Subjects5 photos on 1 mount. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War --Fortifications; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,373 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130005

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