Keywords: Union soldiers entrenched along the west bank of the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, Virginia (111-B-157).jpg Union soldiers entrenched along the west bank of the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg in the Battle of Chancellorsville This is a photograph misidentified by the National Archives as a Mathew Brady work allegedly a view of Union soldiers in the trenches around Petersburg Virginia in 1865 According to Frassanito William A Grant and Lee The Virginia Campaigns 1864 1865 Scribners 1983 ISBN 0-684-17873-7 pp 422-23 One of the most famous of all photographs traditionally captioned as a Brady view -- showing Union soldiers in the trenches before Petersburg -- is in reality an A J Russell photograph depicting Union soldiers of General William T H Brooks's division Sedgwick's corps entrenched along the west bank of the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg just prior to the battle of May 3 1863 http //www archives gov/research/civil-war/photos/images/civil-war-115 jpg 115 Soldiers in the trenches before battle Petersburg Va 1865 111-B-157 http //www archives gov/research/civil-war/photos/ 1863-05 A J Russell PD PD-old Battle of Chancellorsville Andrew J Russell |