Dead soldier (American Civil War - Siege of Petersburg, April 1 1865) (2)

Forfatter/Opretter:

Thomas C Roche, died 1895

Kredit:

Library of congress

Shortlink:

https://dkwiki.dk/b/25cd

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Wikimedia Commons

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2000 x 1700 Pixel (1271616 Bytes)

beskrivelse:

Petersburg, Va., April 1865; Dead South Carolina soldier in trenches (Photo shows a soldier wearing a gunner's haversack, which confirms his identity as an artilleryman. The photographer placed a broken gun sponge in the scene as a prop, which indicates that the image was taken to the rear of the battery. (Source: David Lowe and Philip Shiman, "Substitute for a Corpse,") Civil War Times, Dec. 2010, p. 40)

Licens:

Public domain