Photograph Taken During the Second Battle of Fredericksburg Showing Battle Smoke Drifting Through Downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia (1863)

Photograph taken during the Second Battle of Fredericksburg showing battle smoke drifting through downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 3, 1863. A number of Union soldiers are standing/possibly moving on the pontoon bridge crossing the Rappahannock River in the middle ground. By Andrew J. Russell.

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Distant Glimpse of the Second Battle of Fredericksburg in Progress (1863)

Three men in a tree on Stafford Heights watching distant fighting on Marye’s Heights during the Second Battle of Fredericksburg, 1863. Smoke from the battle is possibly visible in the distance which would make it one of the earliest combat photographs of a land battle. The destroyed railroad bridge over the Rappahannock River is in the middle ground of the photo.

Photograph is from the National Park Service via the Western Reserve Historical Society, which seems to have a large collection of previously unpublished American Civil War photographs. The photograph was discovered by Bob Zeller, the president of the Center for Civil War Photography.

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