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Union Breastworks on Culp's Hill



Union Breastworks on Culp's Hill
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Title: Union Breastworks on Culp's Hill
Description: A stereograph made by Mathew Brady about two weeks after the battle of Gettysburg, showing his two assistants gazing eastward from the extreme right of the Union line at Gettysburg. On the first day of the battle, the Wisconsin regiments in the Iron Brigade experienced fierce combat to the west of Gettysburg, and they were withdrawn to a position near the location depicted here. The 6th Wisconsin engaged in further combat on Culp's Hill, the 2nd and 7th Wisconsin regiments were held in reserve on July 2nd and July 3rd.
Image ID: 97649
Creation
Date: 		July 1863 
Creator
Name: 		Brady, Mathew
City, State: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Collection
Name: 		Brady, Mathew B., 1823 (ca.)-1896 : The War for the Union, 1861-1865 : Photographic History, [188-?]
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information: 		This stereograph is a rare Brady imprint from the Lucius Fairchild Papers. The negative number of the original Brady negative at the Library of Congress is #2424.

Also known as a stereoview.
Subjects: Trees
Photography
Hats
Battlefields
Fortification
Civil War, 1861-1865
Men
Outdoor photography
Work clothes
Forests and forestry
 

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