Big Black River Miss. Battlefield of May 17 1863 – 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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Big Black River Miss. Battlefield of May 17 1863
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This stereograph shows the battlefield at the Big Black River in Mississippi, where Union and Confederate troops clashed on May 17, 1863. The fight was the last major obstacle on the road to Vicksburg. Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant drove Confederate troops under John C. Pemberton back across the river, and the defeated Confederates retreated into the city's defenses, which led to the siege that followed. Because the image is dated 1864, it was made after the fighting, when the ground had been cleared and the field could be photographed calmly. Its wet collodion glass negative and stereo format reflect the photographic methods of the period.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : 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. 0674 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Battlefields. Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege 1863. Battlefields.United States--Mississippi--Big Black River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,696 × 1,356 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46222 |
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