Petersburg Virginia. Captain Andrew Cowns 1st New York Independent Battery Light Ar – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Petersburg Virginia. Captain Andrew Cowns 1st New York Independent Battery Light Ar in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Petersburg Virginia. Captain Andrew Cowns 1st New York Independent Battery Light Ar
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Captain Andrew Cowan's battery, the 1st New York Independent Battery Light Artillery, is the subject of this 1865 view taken near Petersburg, Virginia. Independent batteries were small artillery units that could be attached to larger commands, and Petersburg had been under siege for nearly ten months when Confederate forces abandoned the city in April 1865. The wet collodion glass negative was made by David B. Woodbury, a photographer who died in 1866, and it is part of a Library of Congress collection of Civil War glass negatives.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: View of Cowans Battery. Capt. Andrew Cowan (1st New York Independent Battery); Similar See: Miller vol. 5 p. 47. 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 | 5,117 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50498 |
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