Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: APBPm, 700 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 3.6 Mb

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Image ID: APBP

Credit:

by Rees (Charles R.)
Date:

1862-1865
Negative Size:

stereo
Equipment:

12-pounder Napoleon gun; cannon; field carriage; Sibley tent; sponge and rammer staff; wedge tent
Locations & Lines:

Belle Isle VA; Belle Isle prison camp (Richmond VA); Jame River; Richmond VA; Virginia
Military Units:

CS Army; US Army
Persons:

Turner (Thomas P.)
Structures & Establishments:

Custom House (Richmond VA); St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Richmond VA); State Capitol (Richmond VA); Sycamore Church (Richmond VA)
Sources:

Library of Congress

Library of Congress says: The Union prison camp at “Belle Isle,” Richmond, Va. [Summary: Stereograph showing Maj. Thomas P. Turner, Commandant of the “Libby Prison,” dressed in gray, with felt hat on, standing on hill overlooking the Confederate prison encampment on Belle Isle in the James River . Confederate guard tents are near the river in the distance.]

Available copy is a faux stereo print.

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