Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AAGVm, 300 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 7 Mb

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Image ID: AAGV

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:

1864.05.12
Negative Size:

11 in. x 14 in.
Equipment:

coffin; headstone; shovel; stretcher
Locations & Lines:

Fredericksburg VA; Virginia
Military Units:

US Army
Sources:

Gilder Lehrman Institute; J. Paul Getty Museum; Lee Gallery; Library of Congress; National Archives; National Gallery of Canada; San Francisco MOMA; Swann Galleries

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 96 – Burying the dead – casualties of the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. Fredericksburgh, May 12, 1864.

African-american workers.

Etched onto negative: Burial Place, Fredericksburg [blotted out]. No. 111.

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