Arlington Virginia. Officers of Companies K & L 2d New York Heavy Artillery at Fort – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Arlington Virginia. Officers of Companies K & L 2d New York Heavy Artillery at Fort
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The officers of Companies K and L of the 2nd New York Heavy Artillery, posed at Fort C.F. Smith in Arlington, Virginia, in August 1865, make a rare record of a single unit in its final months. Fort C.F. Smith was one of the earthworks ringing Washington, built on the Virginia heights above the Potomac to guard the approaches to the capital. By that summer the war had ended and garrison units were winding down. The image is a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required quick exposure and careful handling. The record once credited Alexander Gardner with the photograph, but that attribution is no longer assumed.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Officers of Co. K and Co. L 2nd N.Y. Artillery Fort C.F. Smith. Aug. 1865. 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 × 4,091 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47032 |
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