Photographs of Civil War battlefields and cemeteries in Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia, ca. 1876?

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Photographs of Civil War battlefields and cemeteries in Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia, ca. 1876?

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Mounted photographs, in three albums, of various Civil War battlefields in Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia. Sites included are: Petersburg, Va., Fredericksburg, Va., Williamsburg, Va., Arlington, Va., Manassas, Va., Antietam, Md., Shepherdstown, W.Va., Chancellorsville, Va., Richmond, Va., and Guiney's Station, Va. Wartime destruction is still evident in many of the photographs. The photographs appear to have been taken by members of a Pennsylvania photographic club touring the battlefields, who frequently pose at the various sites. The photographs of Burnside's Headquarters in Fredericksburg, Sumner's Crossing, the Bernard House, and the Scott House (in v.3) are on mounts from Centennial Photographic Company, Philadelphia, Pa. Edward L. Wilson and W. Irving Adams, Proprietors. They are identical to the unmarked photographs.

89 photos. : albumin ; 11 x 19 cm.

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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