Fort Pulaski Ga. The Beauregard gun – 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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Step back in time with Fort Pulaski Ga. The Beauregard gun, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Fort Pulaski Ga. The Beauregard gun
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Among the Fort Pulaski views, this stereograph focuses on a gun known as the Beauregard gun, a name linked to Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard, who led Southern defenses on the coast in 1861 and 1862. The fort, which guarded the approach to Savannah, Georgia, surrendered to Union forces in April 1862 after their rifled artillery breached its brick walls. That result showed how quickly masonry fortifications could be overwhelmed by newer weapons. Made with the wet collodion process, the two glass plates were prepared and exposed on site, and viewed through a stereoscope they merge into a sense of depth around the gun.
| Created / published | 1862 |
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| 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. 0592 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--Equipment and supplies. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Forts & fortifications. Artillery (Weaponry)United States--Georgia--Fort Pulaski. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,356 × 1,350 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46153 |
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