![]() Knoblauch’s photo analysis will comprise one chapter in her dissertation on the use of photography in American medical practice from 1839 to the eve of World War II. “To piece together what happens after this moment, how people live with their wounds afterwards, how that patient experience either carries with them or doesn’t carry with them, has been a motivating factor for me.” “This is one moment in this person’s life,” said Heidi Knoblauch, a doctoral candidate in the History of Medicine program, who is examining Yale’s collection of 98 photographs taken during the Civil War at Harewood Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. These are the “after” photos, taken after the men had left their homes to fight for the Union or the Confederacy, and after they were wounded, carrying the scars of the American Civil War for the rest of their lives. On closer inspection of the oval gold-lined frames, the serene faces are scarred, bald spots divided by deep canyon-like cuts, shoulders swollen around bullet craters. Follow Andrew on Twitter at a_r_nicholas.Seated in profile, the young men pose as they would for family portraits. On the left is Calvin Lewis Robinson’s store which burned down in 1865.Īrticle by Andrew R. Photograph taken between 18 at the corner of Bay and Hogan. The caption for this photograph is not clear exactly where this was taken and only gives a vague location somewhere between Newnan and Ocean. This building was formerly the warehouse of Theodore Hartridge. Photograph of the Post Commissary’s office from December 11, 1864. It appears that the same signal tower is on the far right so this location might be near the hospital buildings from the previous photographs. The United States Sanitary Commission at an unknown location in Jacksonville. The date of this photograph is unknown but still assumed to be 1864. Union forces concealed their rifles with brush and tree limbs as seen in the photograph on both sides of the Union soldiers. Photograph titled Hospital number 4 from December 11, 1864.Ī street with Live Oak trees. Photograph titled Hospital number 3 from December 11, 1864. This hospital is in the vicinity of the signal tower. ![]() Photograph titled Hospital number 2 from December 11, 1864. Photograph titled Hospital number 1 from December 11, 1864. These buildings are probably on Bay Street. The signal tower can be seen in the back. ![]() Photograph of a Commissary Store taken on December 11, 1864. This building was behind the present-day Florida Theatre. The bakery was located on the northside of Bay between Ocean and Newnan. Photograph of a bakery from December 11, 1864. This photograph from Decemshows a Union prison in Jacksonville. In the photograph are Joseph Mark Califf, Oscar E. United States Army Colored Infantry 7th Regiment. The USCT accompanied the Union occupation forces in 1864. In the lower right is an African American Union soldier who was part of the United States Colored Troops. This was probably taken on Ocean Street looking north toward the present-day parking lot. This photograph shows the front of Sanderson’s house. The house was on the corner of Ocean and Forsyth where a parking lot now exist. This photograph by Cooley shows the side of the house. The photograph was taken on December 12, 1864.Ĭolonel John Pease Sanderson’s house was used as the Union headquarters in Jacksonville by General Truman Seymour. In my opinion the signal tower was most likely on Forsyth at the present-day Bank of America Tower. This signal tower is said to have been either at James Weldon Johnson Park or in the neighborhood of Forsyth and Main. Signal towers like this one were used to communicate with other Federal units in the area. Photograph of the Provost Marshall’s guard house on Decemat Bay and Ocean. Water Street, Independent Drive and Coastline Drive did not yet exist because the river’s boundary came up to Bay Street. This building was probably at the present-day site of the parking lot across from the Cowford Chophouse. Hussey & Co., a “Cheap Cash Store” selling general goods, and was at the foot of Bay Street. This photograph shows a section of a light battery. ![]()
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