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Confederate Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia] – Historic Print

Confederate Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Confederate Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Courthouses collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Confederate Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Confederate Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia]

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Few places in the Civil War saw as much digging as the crossroads at Spotsylvania Court House, where the old and new Court House Roads meet. These five photographs, mounted together, show Confederate earthworks at that junction, the log-and-earth breastworks Lee's army raised in the spring of 1864 as Grant's forces pressed south toward Richmond. Soldiers on both sides relied heavily on such entrenchments during the nearly two weeks of fighting at Spotsylvania in May 1864. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year and photographer remain unconfirmed.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
Subjects5 photos on 1 mount. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War -- Fortifications; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,389 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130001

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