Petersburg Va. Chaplains of the 9th Corps – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Petersburg Va. Chaplains of the 9th Corps. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Petersburg Va. Chaplains of the 9th Corps
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Few photographs from the Petersburg siege put faces to the men who tended the wounded and buried the dead, and this one does exactly that by showing the chaplains of the Ninth Corps of the Army of the Potomac. The image is a wet collodion glass negative made in 1864, when Union forces had bogged down in trench warfare outside Petersburg, Virginia, after the Overland Campaign. Chaplains in that period ministered to soldiers facing constant danger and heavy casualties, and portraits like this were often made for regimental and family use. The print was later issued by the War Photograph and Exhibition Company and catalogued by the Library of Congress.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0407 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865.United States--Virginia--Petersburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,728 × 1,362 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52219 |
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