Wilderness # 31. Confederate & federal entrenchments (Spotsylvania)

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GLC#
GLC05111.01.0434-View header record
Type
Images
Date
circa 1861-1865
Title
Wilderness # 31. Confederate & federal entrenchments (Spotsylvania)
Place Written
Spotsylvania, Virginia
Pagination
1 photograph Height: 18.7 cm, Width: 15.5 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Inscription on verso: "Confederate and Federal entrenchments in which the opposing forces lay in close proximity for 24 hours. Field between the two in which Confederate General Edward Johnson was captured." One of the trees has a sign on it which can be read in # 435. Three men pose in the field. Additional inscription on verso "F. H. Meserve Collection." Inscription on recto of mount "Not Used." Johnson was captured at the Bloody Angle in Spotsylvania. Same locale as # 435.

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