Centreville Va. Confederate winter quarters south view – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Centreville Va. Confederate winter quarters south view in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Centreville Va. Confederate winter quarters south view
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Centreville, Virginia, served as Confederate winter quarters in 1861 and 1862, and this south view shows the camps the army built after the First Battle of Bull Run. James F. Gibson, a Washington photographer, made the wet collodion glass negative in 1862. That process required each plate to be coated and exposed before it dried, so every field view meant hauling a portable darkroom. The Confederates withdrew from Centreville early that year, and the picture records ground that was soon abandoned as the war moved on.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0019 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. 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--Military facilities.United States--Virginia--Centreville. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,674 × 1,366 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52876 |
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