Fair Oaks Va. vicinity. Horatio G. Gibsons C and G Batteries – Vintage Photo Print
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Fair Oaks Va. vicinity. Horatio G. Gibsons C and G Batteries in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Fair Oaks Va. vicinity. Horatio G. Gibsons C and G Batteries
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This stereograph shows the artillery of Horatio G. Gibson's C and G batteries, pictured near Fair Oaks in eastern Virginia. The photograph dates to 1862, when the Union Army of the Potomac was advancing up the peninsula toward Richmond during the Peninsula Campaign. Fair Oaks, also called Seven Pines, was the scene of heavy fighting at the end of May and beginning of June that year. Wet collodion glass negatives like this one required photographers to prepare and expose plates on the spot, so views of camps and equipment from this period are a useful record of how the army was organized and supplied in the field. The stereo format, meant to be viewed through a special viewer, gave the image a sense of depth.
| Created / published | 1862 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0080 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. Peninsular Campaign 1862. Artillery (Weaponry) Gibson Horatio G.United States--Virginia--Fair Oaks. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,718 × 1,370 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46150 |
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