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Interior View of the Confederate Line, at Gracie's Salient

Date

May 1865

Medium

Albumen silver print

Culture

American

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

View of the earthworks at Gracie's Salient, a Confederate fortification outside of Petersburg, Virginia. The mounds of earth are adorned with gabions, support walls, fences made of woven tree branches, and chevaux de frise. Poor creek runs past the salient in the foreground.

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