City Point Virginia. Negro soldier guarding 12-pdr. Napoleon. (Model 1857?) – 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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This historic photograph of City Point Virginia. Negro soldier guarding 12-pdr. Napoleon. (Model 1857?) brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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City Point Virginia. Negro soldier guarding 12-pdr. Napoleon. (Model 1857?)
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At City Point, Virginia, a Union supply depot on the James River, a Black soldier stands guard beside a 12-pounder Napoleon, a bronze smoothbore field gun that was among the most widely used artillery of the Civil War. In 1865 the depot served the armies besieging Petersburg and Richmond, so the scene shows the everyday work behind the front lines. The picture survives as a stereograph, two glass negative plates meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. It was once credited to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is no longer considered certain.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: City Point Va. 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 | 5,028 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47764 |
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