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Archive Reference (shelfmark) 1784.a.13, 1 Language Not applicable Name Wood and Gibson

1. 1784.a.13, 1(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(12)
Title:
Battery No. 1, near Yorktown, Va. May, 1862. No. 1. Photographer: Wood and Gibson
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View of the massive guns in the battery: 'The first battery was located on the York river, about a mile and three-quarters from Confederate's wharves and their main works in front of Yorktown. It was built by the First Connecticut artillery, Col. Tyler, and had six of the...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1862
Extent:
1 item

2. 1784.a.13, 1(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(13)
Title:
Battery No. 1, near Yorktown, Va. May, 1862. No. 2. Photographer: Wood and Gibson
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography A more general view of the battery, also seen in print 12.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1862
Extent:
1 item

3. 1784.a.13, 1(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(14)
Title:
Mortar Battery No. 4, near Yorktown, Va. May, 1862. Photographer: Wood and Gibson
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography 'This represents one of the batteries planted for the bombardment of Yorktown … The mortars of Battery No. 4 were of thirteen inch calibre, and required great labor to place them in position. As the fire of mortars is entirely a work of calculation, it is not necessary fo...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1862
Extent:
1 item

4. 1784.a.13, 1(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(15)
Title:
Moore House, Yorktown, Va. May, 1862. Photographer: Wood and Gibson
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View of the dilapidated house, with a group of army officers in the garden in the left foreground. It was here that Washington and Cornwallis met in Ocotber 1781 to arrange capitulation terms. 'When the Army of the Potomac invested Yorktown, the Moore House was in excelle...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1862
Extent:
1 item

5. 1784.a.13, 1(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 1(16)
Title:
Inspection of troops at Cumberland Landing, Pamunkey, Va. May, 1862. Photographer: Wood and Gibson
Scope & Content:
View looking towards the troops on parade, with tents beyond. The foreground is dominated by a wagon and other objects: 'At Cumberland Landing, one of the most magnificent spectacles ever seen in the army was presented, when the combined forces, massed upon the banks of the river, converted the ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1862
Extent:
1 item

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