A Dead Rebel Soldier, as he lay in the trenches of Fort Mohone

A Dead Rebel Soldier, as he lay in the trenches of Fort Mohone

Photograph

Attributed to Thomas C. Roche

Maker
American, 1826–1895

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.

American, 1862–1901

A Dead Rebel Soldier, as he lay in the trenches of Fort Mohone

From Photographic History: The War For The Union


April 2, 1865
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 3 1/8 × 3 1/16 in. (7.9 × 7.7 cm)
Mount: 3 5/16 × 6 15/16 in. (8.4 × 17.7 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1979.1484.0046
Inscriptions mount recto(printed): The War For The Union.
Photographic History

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by E. & H.T.
Anthony & Co. in the clerk's office of the District Court of the U.S.
for the So District of New York.

mount verso(applied printed label): War Views. A Dead Rebel Soldier,
as he lay in ther Trenches of Fort Mahone, called by Soldiers 'Fort
Damnation.' This soldier must have been killed by a fragment of shell
that exploded close by, as he is covered all over with mud and ...
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