Gloucester Virginia. Fortifications showing a 11-inch smooth-bore Dahlgren naval gu – Antique 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 historic photograph of Gloucester Virginia. Fortifications showing a 11-inch smooth-bore Dahlgren naval gu brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gloucester Virginia. Fortifications showing a 11-inch smooth-bore Dahlgren naval gu
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Gloucester Point, on the York River across from Yorktown, is the setting here, and the picture shows the water battery there with a Dahlgren 11-inch smooth-bore naval gun among its defenses. Confederate forces fortified this spot in 1861 and 1862 to keep Union gunboats from moving up the river during the Peninsula Campaign. John A. Dahlgren designed the heavy smooth-bore cannon that the Navy adapted for shore batteries, and the gun's bulk stands out in the photograph. The image survives as a wet collodion glass stereograph negative from June 1862, once credited to Alexander Gardner.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Fortifications at Gloucester showing the water battery. June 1862. Annotation from negative stereo label: A Dahlgren 11-inch Smooth-bore naval gun. 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 × 2,106 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49390 |
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