Fair Oaks, Virginia, vicinity. Horatio G. Gibson's C and G Batteries
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Photographs show the officers of 3rd United States Artillery, Battery C, including Captain Horatio G. Gibson, standing in front of a cannon and Captain Gibson on horseback with his battery's weapons and officers.
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Nos. 431 and 432.
Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negatives: LC-B815-431 and LC-B815-432
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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