Gen. Grants rail road City Point Va. looking north – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Gen. Grants rail road City Point Va. looking north. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gen. Grants rail road City Point Va. looking north
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City Point, at the junction of the James and Appomattox rivers, became Ulysses S. Grant's principal supply base and headquarters during the siege of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865, and this stereograph looks north along the rail line that carried men and matériel from its wharves to the front. The railroad was the lifeline of the Union army in the region, moving supplies that the river steamers unloaded at the docks. E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., a New York firm, published the stereo card so that viewers could see the scene in three dimensions, a popular way for Americans to follow the war from home.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). The war for the Union photographic history. · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | Railroads--Virginia--Hopewell--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. City Point (Hopewell Va.)--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,288 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46538 |
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