Belle Plain Virginia. Encampment of 2nd N.Y. and 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Belle Plain Virginia. Encampment of 2nd N.Y. and 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Belle Plain Virginia. Encampment of 2nd N.Y. and 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery
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Belle Plain, a Potomac River landing in Virginia, served as a major supply depot for the Army of the Potomac in 1864, and this stereograph records an encampment there dated May 16 of that year. The caption names the 2nd New York and 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, regiments that were fighting as infantry during Grant's spring campaign. The glass negative uses the wet collodion process, and although Alexander Gardner was once credited as its photographer, that attribution has since been set aside.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name attribution from Civil War caption books. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Encampment of 2d N.Y. and 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery Belle Plain. May 16 1864. 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 × 2,637 px · prints to 17 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47150 |
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