Culpeper Virginia. Officers of U.S. Horse Artillery. Army of the Potomac – Vintage Photo 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 Culpeper Virginia. Officers of U.S. Horse Artillery. Army of the Potomac, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Culpeper Virginia. Officers of U.S. Horse Artillery. Army of the Potomac
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Officers of the U.S. Horse Artillery Brigade, Army of the Potomac, posed at Culpeper, Virginia, in September 1863, and the caption on the negative sleeve gives that place and date. Culpeper was a staging area for the Army of the Potomac in the months after Gettysburg, and horse artillery batteries, which kept their guns mobile enough to travel with cavalry, were a distinctive part of that force. The negative is a wet collodion glass plate, a process that required photographers to prepare and expose each plate on the spot. The image was once credited to Alexander Gardner, but that attribution is now considered uncertain.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Officers of U. S. Horse Artillery Brigade Army of the Potomac Culpeper Va. Sept. 1863. 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 × 4,176 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48240 |
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