Marie's house, Marie's heights, Fredericksburgh, May 15, 1864. Used as hospital – 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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A window into the past: Marie's house, Marie's heights, Fredericksburgh, May 15, 1864. Used as hospital, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Marie's house, Marie's heights, Fredericksburgh, May 15, 1864. Used as hospital
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This view shows a house on Marye's Heights, the ridge above Fredericksburg, Virginia, which is titled "Marie's house" in the record and was photographed on May 15, 1864, while it was in use as a hospital. The heights are best known for the Union assaults of December 1862, when Confederate troops behind a stone wall at the base of the slope repelled wave after wave of attackers. By spring 1864, the fighting in the Wilderness and at Spotsylvania had sent a steady flow of wounded north to Fredericksburg, and private homes were turned into wards. The damage around the building is worth noticing, as it reflects a town that changed hands several times during the war.
| Created / published | 1864 May 15. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Title from item. No. 117. |
| Subjects | Dwellings--Virginia--Fredericksburg--1860-1870. War damage--Virginia--Fredericksburg--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,107 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146868 |
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