Arlington Virginia. Batteries in Fort No. 2 Fort Whipple – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Arlington Virginia. Batteries in Fort No. 2 Fort Whipple in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Arlington Virginia. Batteries in Fort No. 2 Fort Whipple
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Fort No. 2 at Fort Whipple, on the Arlington heights across the Potomac from Washington, is the setting here, with its artillery batteries photographed in June 1865, weeks after Confederate forces in the East had surrendered. Union engineers built Fort Whipple early in the war as one of the earthen works ringing the capital to guard its approaches. By 1865 many of these forts had lost their urgency, so the view captures the defenses just as they were being left behind. The negative is a wet collodion glass plate, and the photographer was once thought to be Alexander Gardner.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Batteries in Fort #2 Fort Whipple VA June 1865. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,350 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47025 |
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