Showing posts with label gabions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gabions. Show all posts

Monday, January 12, 2015

Two Views of an Unidentified Man Posing in Front of a Bombproof in Fort Sedgwick Which Was Built by Union Troops During the Siege of Petersburg Near Petersburg, Virginia (1865)

First view of the man posing in front of the bombproof in the foreground on the left.

View of the background on the right.

Second view of the man posing in front of the bombproof.

Two views of an unidentified man posing in front of a bombproof in Fort Sedgwick which was built by Union troops during the Siege of Petersburg near Petersburg, Virginia, 1865. A group of Union soldiers are seen posing in the background to the right of the first stereoscopic view. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Union Picket Line Taking Cover Behind Gabion Defenses in Front of Fort Mahone, Virginia (1865)





Union soldiers posing as if fighting from behind gabion defenses in front of Fort Mahone, April 1865. Probably taken after the fighting considering the line of soldiers standing in line out in the open in the background in two of the photographs. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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