Chickahominy River Virginia. Military bridge across the Chickahominy built by the 1 – Historic Photograph Print
(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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Step back in time with Chickahominy River Virginia. Military bridge across the Chickahominy built by the 1, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chickahominy River Virginia. Military bridge across the Chickahominy built by the 1
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A military bridge spanning the Chickahominy River in Virginia, built by the 15th New York Engineers under Col. Murphy in June 1862, shows the kind of work that kept the Army of the Potomac moving during McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. The Chickahominy wound through swampy bottomland east of Richmond, and after heavy rains its crossings were unreliable, so engineers had to build and rebuild spans quickly to carry troops, wagons and supplies between camps on either side. Photographer James F. Gibson recorded the scene as a stereograph, a pair of images meant to be viewed together for depth, and both glass plates of this pair survive. Look closely at the timber framing and the approaches to get a sense of how much labor the crossing required.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: Jas. F. Gibson. Caption from negative sleeve: Military bridge across the Chickahominy built by the 15th N. Y. Engineers under Col. Murphy June 1862. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,218 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52630 |
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