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[Officers of U.S. horse artillery brigade, near Culpeper, Va., September, 1863] – Historic Reproduction

[Officers of U.S. horse artillery brigade, near Culpeper, Va., September, 1863], [photographed 1863, printed later] — historic photograph
[Officers of U.S. horse artillery brigade, near Culpeper, Va., September, 1863], [photographed 1863, printed later]. Historic photograph from the Horses 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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Culpeper, Virginia, was a county seat in the Piedmont that changed hands several times during the war, and this group portrait records officers of a U.S. horse artillery brigade there in September 1863. Horse artillery used teams of horses to move its guns quickly alongside cavalry, so these men depended on animals as much as on their cannon. The picture was taken during the months when the Army of the Potomac was campaigning in northern Virginia, and it was printed later from the wartime negative. Its subject line places the men within the Army of the Potomac, which makes it a useful record of the officer corps in that theater.

Created / published[photographed 1863, printed later]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1870.Group portraits 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1910.
NotesCivil War Photograph Collection. No. 607.
SubjectsUnited States.--Army of the Potomac--People. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,276 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-191131

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