Dead South Carolina soldier,trenches,casualties,Petersburg,Virginia,VA,1865

Title: Petersburg, Va., April 1865; Dead South Carolina soldier in trenches
Creator(s): Roche, Thomas C., d. 1895, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1865 Apr.
Summary: Photo shows a soldier wearing a gunner's haversack, which confirms his identity as an artilleryman. The photographer placed a broken gun sponge in the scene as a prop, which indicates that the image was taken to the rear of the battery. (Source: David Lowe and Philip Shiman, 'Substitute for a Corpse,' Civil War Times, Dec. 2010, p. 40)
Notes:
Photographer name from Korn, J. Pursuit to Appomattox, 1987.
Caption from negative sleeve.
Caption from negative: Petersburg, Virginia. Dead Fed. Soldier.
Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: confederate.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-3180A) and right (LC-B811-3180B) halves of a stereograph pair.
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 /cwp2003005131/PP/
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