James River Va. Sunken Confederate ships Virginia (ram) and Jamestown – 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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James River Va. Sunken Confederate ships Virginia (ram) and Jamestown
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Two sunken Confederate vessels, the ram *Virginia* and the *Jamestown*, lie in the James River in this stereograph, a pair of images that shows wartime wreckage rather than the camps and batteries that dominate most Civil War photography. The *Virginia* was the ironclad rebuilt from the Union frigate *Merrimack*, which the Confederates scuttled at Norfolk in 1862 before it could be captured. Sinking ships in the river was a common Confederate tactic for blocking Union vessels from reaching Richmond. The record lists the date as 1860, which predates the war, so that date may be an error. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, died in 1866.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0566 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. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Naval operations. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Government vessels--Confederate.United States--Virginia--James River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,346 × 1,362 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51810 |
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