City Point Virginia. Supply wagons of 2d Brigade 2d Corps – 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 City Point Virginia. Supply wagons of 2d Brigade 2d Corps in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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City Point Virginia. Supply wagons of 2d Brigade 2d Corps
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Wagons of the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Corps, drawn up at City Point, Virginia, are the subject of this 1865 view. City Point, on the James River, served as the Union Army's principal supply depot and headquarters during the Petersburg campaign, so the wagon trains seen here carried the rations, ammunition and forage that kept the lines supplied. The picture survives as a glass stereograph negative made in two plates, which were meant to be viewed together for a three-dimensional effect. The record notes that Alexander Gardner was formerly credited as its photographer.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: (City Point Va.) (2nd Corps Wagon). 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 × 5,093 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47775 |
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