Interior of Fort Sedgwick
Photograph
Taylor & Huntington
American
Interior of Fort Sedgwick
From The War for the Union 1861–1865
ca. 1863
Albumen silver print, printed ca. 1885
Image (each): 3 3/16 × 3 1/4 in. (8.1 × 8.2 cm)
Mount: 4 × 6 15/16 in. (10.1 × 17.7 cm)
Museum accession
1981.5971.0008
Inscriptions printed in black ink on mount recto, LC: 1861 / The War For the Union. / 1865 [sideways along edge]
printed in black ink on mount recto, BR: 1084. / Interior of Fort Sedgwick. \ [FOR DESCRIPTION OF THIS VIEW SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS CARD.]
debossed in image on recto, BC: COPYRIGHTED
printed in black ink on mount recto, RC: 1861 / Photographic War History. 1865 [sideways along edge]
printed in black ink on mount verso, RC: 1084. / Interior of Fort Sedgwick. \ Fort Sedgwick on the Petersburg line was nicknamed by the \ troops "Fort Hell," because the Rebel shot and shell was rained \ into it so constantly and fiercely. This glimpse of the bomb-proof \ quarters of the garrison gives an idea of the unpleasantness of the \ fort as a place of residence during the early days of 1865. The \ boys, however, succeded [sic] in extracting considerable comfort from \ life, even here. The rough chimney with the old pork barrel for \ a chimney pot, leads down underground to a little fire-place \ around which many a song was sung or story told, even while \ Death was holding his carnival just outside. \ 1861—PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY.—1865 \ This series of pictures are ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS taken [...] [sideways]
printed in black ink on mount recto, BR: 1084. / Interior of Fort Sedgwick. \ [FOR DESCRIPTION OF THIS VIEW SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS CARD.]
debossed in image on recto, BC: COPYRIGHTED
printed in black ink on mount recto, RC: 1861 / Photographic War History. 1865 [sideways along edge]
printed in black ink on mount verso, RC: 1084. / Interior of Fort Sedgwick. \ Fort Sedgwick on the Petersburg line was nicknamed by the \ troops "Fort Hell," because the Rebel shot and shell was rained \ into it so constantly and fiercely. This glimpse of the bomb-proof \ quarters of the garrison gives an idea of the unpleasantness of the \ fort as a place of residence during the early days of 1865. The \ boys, however, succeded [sic] in extracting considerable comfort from \ life, even here. The rough chimney with the old pork barrel for \ a chimney pot, leads down underground to a little fire-place \ around which many a song was sung or story told, even while \ Death was holding his carnival just outside. \ 1861—PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY.—1865 \ This series of pictures are ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS taken [...] [sideways]
