Stereograph: "Fort Damnation"
date: label: date made
content: 1865-04-02
name: label: maker
content: Gardner, Alexander
notes: label: Description
content: In this hand-colored photograph, Confederates lie dead in a trench at Fort Mahone after Union forces broke through Lee's defenses on April 2, 1865 and forced him to abandon Petersburg. Many Union troops died as well in the bloody assault on "Fort Damnation."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Petersburg
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Civil War
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content: Photography
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3071.0107
label: catalog number
content: 88.3071.107
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph, stereograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/16 in x 6 15/16 in; 8.73125 cm x 17.62125 cm