Dead Confederate soldier in trench at Fort Mahone Petersburg Va. April 3 1865 – Antique 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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Step back in time with Dead Confederate soldier in trench at Fort Mahone Petersburg Va. April 3 1865, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Dead Confederate soldier in trench at Fort Mahone Petersburg Va. April 3 1865
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This view shows a dead Confederate soldier lying in a trench at Fort Mahone, a earthwork east of Petersburg, Virginia, that Union troops took as the siege of the city ended in early April 1865. The date in the title falls in the same days Union forces occupied Richmond after Confederate troops abandoned both cities, so the picture records the collapse of the Confederate defense. Published by the War Photograph and Exhibition Company, it was one of many scenes of the war's aftermath sold to a public eager to see the battlefields. Viewers should keep in mind that Civil War photographers sometimes moved or arranged bodies for effect.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection. No. B702. · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | Dead persons--Virginia--Petersburg--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Trench warfare. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Casualties--Confederate. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,269 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46592 |
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