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Title: Fredericksburg, May 3, 1863, scene after battle
Creator: Russell, Andrew J., photographer
Contributor: Clough, J. B. (Joel Barber), 1823-1881. (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1863-05-03
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Photograph showing General Herman Haupt, W.W. Wright, and an unidentified soldier at the scene of the destruction of Confederate caissons and horses, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Title on mount: Scene after battle Fredericksburg May 3 1863. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 6.
The afternoon after the 6th Corps had captured Marye's Heights (after 2nd bettle of Fredericksburg), Russell crossed the river with General Haupt to document the battlefield. -- see Haupt Reminiscences, 194-95. Taken a few hours after the action.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photographic print : albumen ; image 23.5 x 32.5 cm, mount 36 x 43.5 cm.
Identifier: photCL 301 (60)
312632
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/317
Subject: Haupt, Herman, 1817-1905
Wright, W. W. (William Wierman), 1824-1882
War damage--Virginia--Fredericksburg--1860-1870. (lctgm)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction and pillage
Albumen prints--1860-1870. (gmgpc)
Source: Joel B. Clough Collection of United States Military Railroad Photographs by Andrew J. Russell.
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Gift of Frank Clough, Capt. Clough's grandson, July 25, 1975.

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