Petersburg Virginia. Group of Provost Guard headquarters Army of the Potomac – 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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Step back in time with Petersburg Virginia. Group of Provost Guard headquarters Army of the Potomac, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Petersburg Virginia. Group of Provost Guard headquarters Army of the Potomac
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Here a group of men from the Provost Guard, the military police unit attached to headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, stands posed at Petersburg, Virginia, in February 1865. The city had been under siege by Union forces since the summer of 1864, and the provost guard's job was to keep order among soldiers, civilians and prisoners behind the lines. The picture was made by David B. Woodbury, a photographer who documented the war, and it survives as a wet collodion glass negative. Images like this one show the everyday organization of a wartime camp rather than the battlefield, which makes them useful to historians.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Group of Provost Guard Headquarters Army of the Potomac Petersburg Va. Feb. 1865. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,158 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50573 |
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