Rebel caisson destroyed by Federal shells, at Fredericksburg

Former TitleFredericksburg: Rebel Caisson Destroyed by Federal Shells

Artist Andrew Joseph Russell (American, 1830 - 1902)

DateMay 3, 1863

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 3/16 × 12 3/8 inches (23.34 × 31.43 cm)
Mount: 13 7/8 × 16 9/16 inches (35.24 × 42.07 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.277

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Inscribednone

MarkingsOn mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "R1058"; On mount verso, top, in pencil: "RUSSELL" , "V1267".

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DescriptionImage of three men looking onto a scene of deceased horses beside upturned carriages.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Developing Greatness: The Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – December 30, 2007, no. 314.

Rotation 7. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 7, 2009 – May 17, 2010, no cat.

Rotation 19. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 9 – September 27, 2015, no cat.

Gallery Label

Andrew Russell took this photograph two hours after fighting had ceased in a bloody victory for Union forces of the American Civil War (1861–1865). The image describes the brutal realities of war’s immediate aftermath.

Photography played an unprecedented role in the documentation of the Civil War. Images like this brought grim details of the conflict’s bitter casualties, if not the fighting itself, to the American public.

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