Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end – 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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Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end
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Battery No. 4 near Yorktown was a siege position where Union troops set up heavy mortars, and the caption notes ten 13-inch mortars, each weighing 20,000 pounds, mounted at its south end. The picture dates to May 1862, when George B. McClellan's army was pressing the Confederate defenses at Yorktown during the Peninsula Campaign. The Confederates abandoned the town in early May, so the negative captures the Union siege works just before that withdrawal. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, made the wet collodion glass stereograph negative, and the view shows the sheer scale of the artillery brought up for the siege.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Battery No. 4 near Yorktown mounting ten 13 inch mortars each weighing 20000 pounds . South end. May 1862. 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 × 2,161 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51719 |
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