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Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, February 14, 2013
Depicted ContentCivil War Soldiering
Image type
photograph
Original caption
Soldiers in the trenches before battle, Petersburg, Va., 1865. 111-B-157.
Source citation
Brady Civil War Image Collection, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Source note
This photograph has long been registered in most collections as depicting Union troops in trenches before Petersburg in 1865, but research by Brian Pohanka and others has indicated that the image was actually created during the Second Battle of Fredericksburg in May,1863 by photographer Andrew J. Russell.