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[Confederate prisoners at Belle Plain, Va., captured at Spotsylvania, May 1864] – Historic Reproduction

[Confederate prisoners at Belle Plain, Va., captured at Spotsylvania, May 1864], 1864 — historic photograph
[Confederate prisoners at Belle Plain, Va., captured at Spotsylvania, May 1864], 1864. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: [Confederate prisoners at Belle Plain, Va., captured at Spotsylvania, May 1864], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Confederate prisoners at Belle Plain, Va., captured at Spotsylvania, May 1864]

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Prisoners captured at Spotsylvania Court House in May 1864 were sent to Belle Plain, a Union supply landing on the Potomac River in Virginia, where this picture was made. During Ulysses S. Grant's campaign against Robert E. Lee, Belle Plain grew into a major depot for the Army of the Potomac, and captured Confederates passed through it on their way north to prison camps. The record's caption card and later revisions are unverified, so details beyond the place and month deserve some caution. Images like this one offer a rare view of the men themselves during the bloody spring fighting of 1864.

Created / published1864
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsCivil War Photograph Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners; Virginia; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,161 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129290

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