Troops drawn up in hollow square to witness an execution

Title:: Troops drawn up in hollow square to witness an execution
Title (alt.):: Petersburg, Va. August 1864. Federal troops drawn up to witness a hanging
Description:: From "War Memories" catalog: This view was taken before Petersburg in 1864, and shows the troops formed in a hollow square to witness the execution of a Negro soldier named Johnson, who was hanged on this scaffold, by order of a general court-martial, having been convicted of an attempted rape of a white woman, whose house was within the Union lines near here, but whose husband was in the Rebel army.
Date:: August 1864
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Albumen prints
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: American Civil War 20th Massachusetts Regiment
Series:: War Memories: The War for the Union, 1861-1865
Subjects:: Gallows
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places:: Virginia > Petersburg
Extent:: 1 photograph : albumen print ; sheet 8 x 9 cm
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/1544hj92z
Terms of Use:: No Copyright - United States
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Notes:: Title from "War Memories" catalog.
Alternative title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
"War Memories" catalog number: 983
Milhollen and Mugridge number: 394
Handwritten on item back: 265
Notes (date):: Date from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Notes (citation):: "War memories, the war for the Union 1861-1865 : catalogue of original photographic war views : photographic history of the war for the Union." Taylor & Huntington, 1890, Hartford, Conn.
Milhollen, Hirst D. and Mugridge, Donald H. "Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 : a catalog of copy negatives made from originals selected from the Mathew B. Brady Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress." Library of Congress, 1961, Washington.
Identifier:: 23_05_000267

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