Petersburg Virginia. Company H 114th Pennsylvania Infantry – 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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Petersburg Virginia. Company H 114th Pennsylvania Infantry
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Company H of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry stands for the camera in front of Petersburg, Virginia, in August 1864, a few months into the Union siege of the city. By then the fighting around Petersburg had settled into a grinding war of trenches and earthworks, and portraits like this one show ordinary soldiers in the middle of that long standoff. The picture was made from a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required the photographer to coat and expose each plate almost immediately, often in a field darkroom near the lines. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, died in 1866, and his negatives are among the Civil War glass plates held by the Library of Congress.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Co. H. 114th Pennsylvania Inantry in front of Petersburg Va. August 1864. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,105 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50512 |
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