Stone wall rear of Fredericksburg with rebel dead and their abandoned military gear. Title on mount: "Stone wall" Fredericksburg May 3d 1863. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 5. Taken the morning after the 6th Corps had captured Marye's Heights (2nd Battle of Fredericksburg), see Haupt Reminiscences, 194-95.
"On the morning of the 4th, while waiting for orders to commence the bridge, I walked over the battle-ground, and examined the heights beyond Marye's house. I then realized the great strength of the position and the impossibility of taking it, if properly defended, by a direct assult in front, as had been attempted by Burnside with disastrous results. My photographic artist, Captain Russell, was with me and secured several large photographic negatives -- one very good one of the stone wall, with the rebel dead lying behind it." (Haupt 194)
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photographic print : albumen ; image 23.5 x 32 cm, mount 35.5 x 44 cm.
War casualties--Virginia--Fredericksburg--1860-1870. (lctgm) Stone walls--Virginia--Fredericksburg--1860-1870. (lctgm) United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties 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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