Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Woods on Culps Hill showing the effect of musket fire – Antique 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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Step back in time with Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Woods on Culps Hill showing the effect of musket fire, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Woods on Culps Hill showing the effect of musket fire
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Trees on Culps Hill, southeast of Gettysburg, still bear the marks of the fighting there in early July 1863, when Union troops held entrenchments against Confederate attacks. Bullets struck the trunks so often that the woods look splintered and scarred, showing how heavy the musketry was. This picture survives as two glass plates, one for each eye, meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. It was once credited to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is no longer considered certain.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Gettysburg 1863. Woods on Culps Hill showing effect of musket fire. 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 | 5,108 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49384 |
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