Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Federal breastworks in the wods on Culps Hill – Historic 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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A window into the past: Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Federal breastworks in the wods on Culps Hill, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Federal breastworks in the wods on Culps Hill
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Culp's Hill, on the Union right at Gettysburg, appears here in the woods where Federal soldiers raised their breastworks of earth and logs. Those defenses were the scene of a fierce fight on the morning of July 3, 1863, when Union troops repulsed Confederate attacks to hold the hill. The image survives as a stereograph pair on wet collodion glass negatives, a format that let viewers see the ground in depth through a stereoscope. The plates were once attributed to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is uncertain.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Federal Breastworks in the woods on Culps Hill Gettysburg. 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 × 4,777 px · prints to 17 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49361 |
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