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| Keywords: In the trenches before Petersburg, Va., 1865 - NARA - 524576.jpg Scope and content General notes Use War and Conflict Number 145 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image 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 524576 Local identifier 111-B-157 War Department Office of the Chief Signal Officer 08/01/1866 - 09/18/1947 NARA-Author Brady National Photographic Art Gallery Washington D C 1858 - Photographer 1135962 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 circa 1860 1865 Record group Record Group 111 Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer 1860 - 1985 Record group ARC 440 Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes compiled 1921 - 1940 documenting the period 1860 - 1865 Series ARC 524418 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-111-B-157 Other versions <gallery> File In_the_trenches_before_Petersburg _Va _1865_-_NARA_-_524576 tif tif File In_the_trenches_before_Petersburg _Va _1865_-_NARA_-_524576 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Siege of Petersburg | ||||
