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Chevaux-de-Frise in front of the Rebel Works at Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg), Virginia
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Stereograph showing a soldier standing next to the defensive fortification composed of wooden spikes attached to a frame in front of a Confederate fort.
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History.
Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
Date from record for negative.
Caption continues: The Union soldiers had to charge across an open field and through these obstructions which were placed in front of the parapets.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative is: LC-B811-3207.
During the Civil War, photographers produced thousands of stereoviews. Stereographs were popular during American Civil War. A single glass plate negative capture both images using a Stereo camera. Prints from these negatives were intended to be looked at with a special viewer called a stereoscope, which created a three-dimensional ("3-D") image. This collection includes glass stereograph negatives, as well as stereograph card prints.
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