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Description: | A photograph of a column of soldiers crossing a wooden bridge over the Chickahominy River in Virginia, America, by Alexander Gardener (1821-1882) from a negative produced by DB Woodbury (?-1866) in 1862. This photograph is from an album entitled 'Canada and the United States.1867' by John Downes Rochfort (1825-1885), who toured Canada and America in 1867. The photograph captures a scene during the Peninsular Campaign of 1862 to 1863, when a Union Army unsuccessfully tried to march on the Confederate capital at Richmond. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | photograph | Temporal: | 1862 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882) | Identifier: | 1995-5001/1/24 | Go to resource |
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