Petersburg Va. Railroad gun and crew – Antique Wall Art
(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: Petersburg Va. Railroad gun and crew, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Petersburg Va. Railroad gun and crew
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A heavy gun mounted on a railroad car, with its crew posed beside it, gives this stereograph its particular interest. Union forces used rail-borne artillery like this to bombard Confederate lines around Petersburg, Virginia, during the long siege of 1864 and 1865. Mounting a gun on rails let crews shift it along existing track rather than hauling it by teams over muddy roads, which mattered on a front that stretched for miles. The picture survives as a stereograph, two nearly identical plates made side by side so that a stereoscope would show them with depth, and its catalog record credits the War Photograph and Exhibition Company as publisher.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0395 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Railroads.United States--Virginia--Petersburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,340 × 1,358 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52227 |
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