Dutch Gap Canal James River Virginia (vicinity). Confederate battery Dantzler – Historic Photograph 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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Dutch Gap Canal James River Virginia (vicinity). Confederate battery Dantzler
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Few spots on the James River were more heavily contested than the bend at Dutch Gap, where Union forces under Benjamin Butler began cutting a canal in 1864 to bypass Confederate guns. This view shows a Confederate battery above the cut, which the record calls Battery Dantzler, though the caption spells the name in more than one way. The negative is a wet collodion glass stereograph dated 1865, and it was once attributed to Alexander Gardner, a photographer whose wartime work is often confused with others'. It is useful for showing the fortified shoreline that made the digging necessary.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Confederate Battery on James River above Dutch Gap Canal. Battery Daritzler Miller vol. 3. p.93. 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 × 2,626 px · prints to 17 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48346 |
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