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![This view was taken in the trenches of the rebel Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers "Fort Damnation," the morning after the storming of Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg), Virginia, April 2d, 1865 [...]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTMvdGhpcy12aWV3LXdhcy10YWtlbi1pbi10aGUtdHJlbmNoZXMtb2YtdGhlLXJlYmVsLWZvcnQtbWFob25lLWNhbGxlZC1ieS10aGUtMDEwZGIxLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "This view was taken in the trenches of the rebel Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers \"Fort Damnation,\" the morning after the storming of Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg), Virginia, April 2d, 1865 [...]")
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Rebel artillery soldiers, killed in the trenches of "Fort Hell," at the storming of Petersburgh, Virginia, April 2d, 1865 The one in the foreground has U.S. belts on, probably taken from a Union soldier prisoner, his uniform is grey cloth trimmed with red. This view was taken the morning after the fight.
Summary
Stereograph shows a dead Confederate soldier in the foreground with the photographer's African American teamster posing as a dead body in the background at Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia. The live model appears in the same clothes in negative LC-B811-3231. (Source: David Lowe and Philip Shiman, "Substitute for a Corpse," Civil War Times, Dec. 2010, p. 41).
Corresponding glass negatives: LC-B811-3181B, left, and LC-B811-3181A, right. E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. acquired the negatives from the studio of Mathew Brady in exchange for photographic supplies.
Purchase; Russell Norton; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012: 069).
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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