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Washington D.C. Company M 9th New York Heavy Artillery in a fort – Antique Print

Washington D.C. Company M 9th New York Heavy Artillery in a fort, 1865 — historic photograph
Washington D.C. Company M 9th New York Heavy Artillery in a fort, 1865. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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A window into the past: Washington D.C. Company M 9th New York Heavy Artillery in a fort, 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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Company M of the 9th New York Heavy Artillery, photographed inside a fort in Washington, D.C., in 1865, is the kind of soldier portrait that the capital's wartime defenses made possible. The city was ringed by a long chain of earthwork forts and batteries built after 1861 to protect it from Confederate attack, and heavy artillery regiments like this one spent much of the war garrisoning them rather than fighting in the field. The negative is a wet collodion glass plate, the standard process of the period, and it was made by David B. Woodbury, a photographer who worked in the capital during the war. The image is listed among the Library of Congress's selected Civil War photographs.

Created / published1865
Medium1 negative : glass wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0788 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel. Artillery (Troops)--Union. Forts & fortifications. 9th New York Artillery. Battery M.United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,676 × 1,356 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46139

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