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| Keywords: Trenches petersburg.jpg is incorrect The online file at the National Archives ARC Identifier 524576 / Local Identifier 111-B-157 states The Petersburg identification appearing in the official caption received by NARA from the Army Signal Corps and appearing as well in the 1897 War Department Library Catalogue based presumably on rough captioning that came to the War Department from the Mathew Brady Studio when the War Department purchased the glass negatives from Brady in 1874-1875 has been disputed by Civil War historians and photo-historians for a number of years In the early 1980s research by Larry Strayer Brian Pohanka Harris Andrews and William Frassanito uncovered documentary evidence suggesting that this image of Union forces was taken by Andrew J Russell just before the Second Battle of Fredericksburg in the spring of 1863 not at Petersburg Virginia as the caption for the image among NARA's holdings of Brady photographs notes A group of five Russell photographic prints bearing Fredericksburg references in their captions including another copy of this image can be found in the holdings of the Western Reserve Historical Society WRHS in Cleveland Ohio The hand written caption on the WRHS copy of the photo presumably by A J Russell the photographer is Line of Brooks' Division at Fredericksburg May 2 1863 Rebels charged here 20 minutes after the picture was taken but were repulsed and driven back As well the U S Army Heritage and Education Center has this same photo listed with a Fredericksburg origin and a smaller archive at the Medford Massachusetts Historical Society has it listed as Entrenched Union soldiers May 1863 which corresponds to Fredericksburg rather than Petersburg http //www archives gov/research/civil-war/photos/ Select Audiovisual Records National Archives and Records Administration 115 http //www archives gov/research/civil-war/photos/images/civil-war-115 jpg Direct link 1865 Not indicated PD PD-old Upload on English Wikipedia the 26 June 2005 at 11 25 by Darwinek Siege of Petersburg Kepis of the United States Trench warfare 1865 | ||||
