Drewrys Bluff Virginia (vicinity). Obstructions in James river. Blocked by the Conf – 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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Step back in time with Drewrys Bluff Virginia (vicinity). Obstructions in James river. Blocked by the Conf, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Drewrys Bluff Virginia (vicinity). Obstructions in James river. Blocked by the Conf
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Drewry's Bluff, a fortified height on the James River south of Richmond, was where Confederate batteries turned back a Union naval advance up the river in May 1862. This 1865 glass negative shows the river itself, with the obstructions the Confederates had placed in the channel and the construction work that surrounded them. The caption on the negative sleeve places the scene near Drewry's Bluff, and the picture was once credited to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution has since been revised. It shows how the war on the James depended as much on engineering in the water as on the guns along the banks.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Construction in James River VA near Drewrys[?] Bluff. Miller vol. I p. 109. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,650 px · prints to 17 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48320 |
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