Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.

General John Gibbon Transporting Captured Colors of the Army of Northern Virginia to Washington

Artist Alexander Gardner (American (born Scotland), 1821 - 1882)

CultureAmerican

DateMay 1, 1865

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 6 3/4 × 8 7/8 in. (17.1 × 22.5 cm)
Overall, Support: 11 × 13 in. (27.9 × 33 cm)

Credit LineGift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange

Object number98.32.179

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Not on view

DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. A black and white photograph of a group of soldiers posed holding flags underneath a large tree. A picket fence stands in the background. This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].

Exhibition History"Civil War Photographs from the David L. Hack Collection and Civil War Redux: Pinhole Photographs by Willie Anne Wright," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, February 3 - October 29, 2006; Cape Fear Museum, Wilmington, NC, February 15 - May 28, 2007; Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, July 26 - September 21, 2008. "Dark Fields of the Republic: Alexander Gardner Photographs 1859-1872," Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, September 18, 2015 - March 13, 2016. Published ReferencesJohn J. Fox, III, The Confederate Alamo: Bloodbath at Petersburg's Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865, (Winchester, VA: Angle Valley Press, 2010), 211, back cover.