Dead Confederate soldier,trenches,bodies,casualties,Petersburg,Virginia,VA,1865

Title: Petersburg, Virginia. Dead Confederate soldier in trenches before Petersburg
Creator(s): Roche, Thomas C., d. 1895, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1865 Apr. 3.
Summary: Photo shows, according to Thomas Roche's caption, 'a Rebel soldier killed in the Rebel trenches before Petersburgh [sic]. The spots and marks on his face are blood issuing from his mouth and nose. The wound is in the head, caused by a fragment of shell.' (Source: David Lowe and Philip Shiman, 'Substitute for a Corpse,' Civil War Times, Dec. 2010, p. 40)
Notes:
Photographer name attribution from Johnson, W.S. Nineteenth-century photography, 1990.
Caption from negative sleeve: Petersburg, Va., April 1865.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-3191B) and right (LC-B811-3191A) halves of a stereograph pair.
Stereo filed in LOT 4168.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4168.
Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Glass negatives--1860-1870.
Stereographs--1860-1870.
Bookmark /cwp2003005140/PP/
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