Petersburg Virginia. Field and staff officers of 39th U.S. Colored Infantry – 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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Petersburg Virginia. Field and staff officers of 39th U.S. Colored Infantry comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Petersburg Virginia. Field and staff officers of 39th U.S. Colored Infantry
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Field and staff officers of the 39th U.S. Colored Infantry posed in front of Petersburg, Virginia, in September 1864, while the siege lines around the city were still active. Black regiments like this one were raised in 1863 and 1864 after the Emancipation Proclamation opened Union service to African American men, but their commissioned officers were white, a detail worth keeping in mind when looking at the group. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, worked in the Petersburg area during the war and died in 1866. The image survives as a wet collodion glass negative in the Library of Congress.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Fiedl and staff of 39th U. S. Colored Infantry. In front of Petersburg Va. Sept. 1864. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,124 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50550 |
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