Confederate,Union dead,trenches,African American,Fort Mahone,siege,Virginia,1865

Title: [Confederate and Union dead side by side in the trenches at Fort Mahone]
Date Created/Published: 1865 April 3.
Summary: Photo shows a body lying in the background that is actually the photographer's African American teamster posing for the scene. 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) Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.
Notes:
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0425
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-3181B) and right (LC-B811-3181A) halves of a stereograph pair.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4168.
Title from: Miller, Francis T. Photographic history of the Civil War, v. 9, p. 191. Previously
Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)
Subjects:
African Americans--Virginia--Petersburg--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865.
United States--Virginia--Petersburg.
Stereographs--1860-1870.
Wet collodion negatives.
Bookmark /cwp2003000602/PP/
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