Johnsons mill Appomattox River near Petersburg Va. – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 Johnsons mill Appomattox River near Petersburg Va., 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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Johnsons mill Appomattox River near Petersburg Va.
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Johnson's Mill sits on the Appomattox River near Petersburg, Virginia, a river town south of Richmond that would later become central to the war's final campaigns. The record credits the photograph to Mathew B. Brady, whose studio documented the conflict from its earliest months, and it lists military personnel among the subjects, suggesting soldiers were present at the site. Dated 1861, the image comes from the first year of fighting, when Virginia had just joined the Confederacy and many mills along the river were still working as they had before the war. Its setting, a working mill rather than a battlefield, shows how the conflict reached ordinary rural industry.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection. · Brady Mathew B. 1823 (ca.)-1896 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel. Mills--Virginia--Appomattox River--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,260 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52129 |
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