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Rebel artillery soldiers, killed in the trenches of "Fort Hell," at the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865 
[The War for the Union. Photographic History.] 
1865 
  
Stereoview 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division 
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s04369 (digital file from original item, front) LC-DIG-stereo-2s04369 (digital file from original item, back) 
  
 
LL/108695 
  
Caption continues: The one in the foreground has U.S. belts on, probably taken from a Union soldier prisoner, his uniform is grey cloth trimmed with red. This view was taken the morning after the fight.
 
Summary: Stereograph shows a dead Confederate soldier in the foreground with the photographer's African American teamster posing as a dead body in the background at Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia. The live model appears in the same clothes in negative LC-B811-3231. (Source: David Lowe and Philip Shiman, "Substitute for a Corpse," Civil War Times, Dec. 2010, p. 41). 
 

 
  
 
  
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