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Title	Confederate Hospital at Yorktown
Creator	Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896
Date	ca. 1860-1865
Decade	1860-1869
Part Of	Civil War images
Description	Print made in May 1912 from original glass plate negative.
Notes	Verso: [label] The house shown was used as headquarters by Lafayette, during the first siege of Yorktown, in the Revolution. It was originally owned by Governor Nelson of Virginia and while Gen. McClellan's Siege was in progress, was the scene of several important conferences between the Confederate generals. Whenever the armies operated in the East or along the Mississippi - both sides frequently seized upon just such houses as the one shown and converted them into hospitals for the sick and wounded.
Related Resources	MARC record: http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1855650
Keywords	Civil War; Confederates; Confederacy; hospitals; soldiers; men
Physical Description	1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 16 x 24 cm.
Form/Genre	Photographs Gelatin silver prints
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2011
Digital Format	Displayed as .jp2; uploaded as .jpg
Archival File Resolution	Archival scan: 5700 w x 3858 h pixels
Digitization Process	Digitization Process: Master: scanned as 600 ppi, 48 bit, RGB .tif file. Derivative: Master file resampled as 3000 pixel wide 24 bit, RGB .jpg file.
Call Number	Ag1986.0478
Upload File Name	ag1986_0478_war_hospital_r_opt.jpg
Archival File Name(s)	ag1986_0478_war_hospital_r.tif; ag1986_0478_war_hospital_v.tif
Archival File Path	ARCHIVE\DeGolyer\reproductions\Ag1986-0478
Digital Collection	Civil War: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints
Library	DeGolyer Library
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using this file. A high-quality version of this file may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.

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