Private Samuel Shoop, Company F, 200th Pennsylvania Infantry, April–May 1865, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 18.9 × 13.1 cm (7 7/16 × 5 3/16 in.), Photographs, Reed Brockway Bontecou (American, 1824–1907), The last great battle of the Civil War was the siege of Petersburg, Virginia—a brutal campaign that led to Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865. Samuel Shoop, a twenty-five-year-old private in Company F of the 200th Pennsylvania Volunteers, received a gunshot wound in the thigh at Fort Steadman on the first day of the campaign (March 25) and was evacuated to Harewood Hospital in Washington, D
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Private Samuel Shoop, Company F, 200th Pennsylvania Infantry, April, 1865, Albumen silver print, glass negative, Image, 18.9, 13.1 cm, 7 7/16, 5 3/16, Photographs, Reed Brockway Bontecou, American, 1824–1907, last, great, battle, Civil War, siege, Petersburg, Virginia— brutal, campaign, led, Confederate General, Robert, E, Lee, surrender, April 9, Samuel, twenty-five-year-old private, Pennsylvania, Volunteers, received, gunshot wound, thigh, Fort Steadman, first day, March 25, evacuated, Harewood Hospital, Washington, D
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