still image Stereographs 1860-1870. gmgpc Wet collodion negatives. gmgpc 1865 April 3. eng Photo shows a body lying in the background that is actually the photographer's African American teamster posing for the scene. The live model appears in the same clothes in negative LC-B811-3231. (Source: David Lowe and Philip Shiman, "Substitute for a Corpse," Civil War Times, Dec. 2010, p. 41) Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3181B) and right (LC-B811-3181A) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is in LOT 4168. Title from: Miller, Francis T. Photographic history of the Civil War, v. 9, p. 191. Previously Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is available at Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress). African Americans--Virginia--Petersburg--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865. United States Petersburg. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.02551 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.02550 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwp.4a39823 No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "Civil war photographs, 1861-1865,"