Yorktown Virginia. Confederate battery JEFF DAVIS – 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 Yorktown Virginia. Confederate battery JEFF DAVIS in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Yorktown Virginia. Confederate battery JEFF DAVIS
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The gun emplacements here were known as the "Jeff Davis guns," named for Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, and this 1862 view shows one of the batteries the Confederates built to defend Yorktown on the Virginia Peninsula. Union forces under George McClellan besieged the town that spring during the Peninsula Campaign, and the Confederates withdrew in early May 1862. The image is a glass negative made with the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to prepare and develop each plate on site. It was taken by David B. Woodbury, who worked as a photographer during the war and died in 1866.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Confederate Battery at Yorktown Va. [Jeff Davis Guns]. 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 × 2,110 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51742 |
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