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John Reekie — Extreme Line of Confederate Works, Cold Harbor, Virginia

John Reekie

Extreme Line of Confederate Works, Cold Harbor, Virginia

1865

Cold Harbor's abandoned Confederate fortifications stretch across the Virginia landscape in this sobering document of America's bloodiest conflict. Reekie's photograph, part of Gardner's comprehensive war album, provides crucial visual evidence of military engineering and the war's aftermath.

Medium
Albumen print, pl. 96 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)

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John Reekie, Extreme Line of Confederate Works, Cold Harbor, Virginia, 1865

Cold Harbor's abandoned Confederate fortifications stretch across the Virginia landscape in this sobering document of America's bloodiest conflict. Reekie's photograph, part of Gardner's comprehensive war album, provides crucial visual evidence of military engineering and the war's aftermath.

Medium
Albumen print, pl. 96 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)
Year
1865
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Monochrome, Albumen Print, Civil War, Documentary, American, Landscape, Military, Historical, Architecture

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