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Confederate Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia] – Vintage Print

Confederate Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Confederate Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Courthouses 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 Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Confederate Entrenchments near junction of old and new Court House Roads, [Spotsylvania, Virginia]

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Where the Old and New Court House Roads meet, Confederate troops dug in around Spotsylvania Court House, a position Union forces spent much of May 1864 trying to break. Earthworks like these ran through the woods and fields of the county, and the fighting there, including the assaults on the Mule Shoe salient, was among the bloodiest of the Overland Campaign. The caption card for this mount carries no date and its data is unverified, so the exact day the photographs were made is uncertain, but the subject ties them to that campaign.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
Subjects5 photos on 1 mount. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War -- Fortifications; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,353 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130004

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