Petersburg Virginia. Group of officers at headquarters Army of the Potomac – Antique 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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This historic photograph of Petersburg Virginia. Group of officers at headquarters Army of the Potomac brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Petersburg Virginia. Group of officers at headquarters Army of the Potomac
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This glass negative records a group of officers gathered at the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac in front of Petersburg, Virginia, in August 1864. By then the Union army was locked in the siege of Petersburg, a rail and supply hub south of Richmond, and the lines had settled into a grinding stalemate. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, worked in the field with the wet collodion process, which required coating and exposing glass plates before the emulsion dried. Such images gave the public a rare look at the men directing the campaign, away from the battlefield itself.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Group of Officers at Headquarters Army of the Potomac in Front of Petersburg 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 × 4,225 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50572 |
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