Hanover Court House Virginia (vicinity). 12-pdr. Howitzer captured by 17th New York – Vintage 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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Hanover Court House Virginia (vicinity). 12-pdr. Howitzer captured by 17th New York comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hanover Court House Virginia (vicinity). 12-pdr. Howitzer captured by 17th New York
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A 12-pounder howitzer taken from Confederate forces by men of the 17th New York and the 12th Maine sits in this view, its captors' regiments named on the original negative sleeve. The scene is set near Hanover Court House in Virginia, where Union troops fought in late May 1862 during the Peninsula Campaign, as the Army of the Potomac advanced toward Richmond. The picture survives as a stereograph, a pair of glass wet-collodion plates that, viewed through a stereoscope, gave the image depth. Photographer James F. Gibson, born in 1828, made it, and the pair stands among the Library of Congress's Civil War glass negatives.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Gun Captured by 17th N. Y. & 12th Maine Regt. Hanover Junction VA. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,101 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52700 |
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