Brandy Station Va. Troopers of Co. D 3d Pennsylvania Cavalry (2d Division Cavalry C – 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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A window into the past: Brandy Station Va. Troopers of Co. D 3d Pennsylvania Cavalry (2d Division Cavalry C, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Brandy Station Va. Troopers of Co. D 3d Pennsylvania Cavalry (2d Division Cavalry C
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Brandy Station, in Culpeper County, Virginia, is the setting for this 1864 view of the troopers of Company D, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry. The village had been the site of the largest cavalry battle fought in North America, on June 9, 1863, and Union horsemen were still camped and drilling across that ground the following year. The picture is a glass negative made by the wet collodion process, which required the plate to be coated, exposed, and developed before it dried. Exposures were slow, so the men had to hold still for the camera, and the result gives a steady record of how a cavalry company looked during the war.
| 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. 0272 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry. Company D.United States--Virginia--Brandy Station. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,736 × 1,366 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-45976 |
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