<I>Colored Pickets on Duty Near Dutch Gap</I>
- Medium
- albumen and silver on paper, ink on card stock
- Genre
- Albumen prints
Styles
Tags
militaryphotographyUnited States Colored TroopsU.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865American South
About
Dutch Gap refers to a Canal dug during the Civil War to cut off a bend in the James River controlled by Confederate forts. Digging of the canal started in late 1864 and among the workers were paid African Americans from the Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island. Freedmen in the USCT (including the 116th Regiment out of Kentucky) also took part in the military conflicts at Dutch Gap.