“View of the river—a part of our camp in the foreground and Port Hudson in the distance,” is handwritten on the front of the stereoview. “This photograph, titled ‘Confederate forts that held the steep river banks at Port Hudson, 1863,’ is shown in Miller’s Photographic History of the Civil War (1911), 2: 179,’” is written on the back of the mount.

Stereoview by Unknown Photographer

Images Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 31371