The Trenches of Fort Mahone

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GLC#
GLC05137.059-View header record
Type
Images
Date
1865/04/02
Title
The Trenches of Fort Mahone
Place Written
New York
Pagination
1 stereocard
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Caption: "A Dead Rebel Soldier, as he lay on the foot passage in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the Soldiers 'Fort Damnation.' Part of a broken Musket and Bayonet stuck in the bank. The marks and spots on his face are blood oozing from the wound in his head. This view was taken the Morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865." View of a soldier's body with his hands folded over his belly. Same subject as #5137.57 with photograph shot lengthwise from above the head.

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