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File Details: AJUDm, 1400 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 41.4 Mb

Image ID: AJUD

Credit:

by O’Sullivan (Timothy H.)

Date:

1864.06.20

Negative Size:

4 in. x 10 in. stereo

Equipment:

gallows

Locations & Lines:

Petersburg battlefield VA; Virginia

Military Units:

23rd US Colored Infantry; US Army

Persons:

Johnson (William)

Sources:

Chrysler Museum of Art; Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 783. The execution of William Johnson, Petersburg, June 20, 1864. [Gardner Co. stereo card]

African-american Union soldier, 23rd US Colored Infantry, executed near Petersburg, VA for “attempted rape.”

Gardner No. 783.

Etched onto negative: 137 [crossed out]. 783. Written on negative: 783.