Stereograph: "Fort Damnation"
Stereograph: "Fort Damnation"
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- Description
- In this hand-colored photograph, Confederates lie dead in a trench at Fort Mahone after Union forces broke through Lee's defenses on April 2, 1865 and forced him to abandon Petersburg. Many Union troops died as well in the bloody assault on "Fort Damnation."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- photograph, stereograph
- date made
- 1865-04-02
- maker
- Gardner, Alexander
- place made
- United States: Virginia, Petersburg
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 7/16 in x 6 15/16 in; 8.73125 cm x 17.62125 cm
- ID Number
- 1988.3071.0107
- catalog number
- 88.3071.107
- nonaccession number
- 1988.3071
- subject
- Civil War
- Civil War
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Art
- Civil War
- Photography
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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