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Archive Reference (shelfmark) 1784.a.13, 2 Language Not applicable Subject Military personnel

1. 1784.a.13, 2(52)

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1784.a.13, 2(52)
Title:
Residence, Quartermaster, Third Army Corps. Brandy Station, December, 1863. Photographer: Gardner, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View of makeshift buildings, with figures posed in front: 'When this picture was made, the Third Corps was yet an independent organization, under the command of Gen. French, whose Chief Quartermaster was Lieut. Col. J. B. Howard. The distinguishing flag of the Colonel's c...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Dec 1863
Extent:
1 item

2. 1784.a.13, 2(55)

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1784.a.13, 2(55)
Title:
Guard mount, Headquarters Army of the Potomac. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View of men of the 114th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers on parade, with their camp on the hillside beyond: 'Soon after the breaking out of the war, a company of Zouaves, formed upon the French model, was organized in Philadelphia … When the army lay in winter quarter...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863-1864
Extent:
1 item

3. 1784.a.13, 2(57)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 2(57)
Title:
Camp architecture. January, 1864. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography Group portrait of two officers and their wives seated in front of the brick and canvas accommodation: 'The ingenuity and taste of the American soldier is strikingly illustrated in the variety of architecture with which he adorns his summer quarters … Sometimes a framework...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
Jan 1864
Extent:
1 item

4. 1784.a.13, 2(59)

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1784.a.13, 2(59)
Title:
Battery A, Fourth U. S. Artillery — Robertson's Brigade. Photographer: Gardner, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography General view of troops and guns stretched out along the grassy slope, with the camp in the background: 'This is one of the celebrated horse batteries of the Army of the Potomac … The picture represents the four 12-pounder light brass pieces 'in battery,' with limbers and ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863-1864
Extent:
1 item

5. 1784.a.13, 2(60)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 2(60)
Title:
Headquarters, Army of the Potomac [at Brandy Station]. February, 1864. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View of tents set among the tree, with a group of Zouaves posed in the foreground: 'This scene represents General Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, at Brandy Station, just previous to the Wilderness campaign. The large tent was occupied by Gen. Meade, and the adjoi...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1864
Extent:
1 item

6. 1784.a.13, 2(61)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 2(61)
Title:
Commissary Department, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac [at Brandy Station]. February, 1864 Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography General view of the timber and canvas commissary building, with officers and men posed in front.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1864
Extent:
1 item

7. 1784.a.13, 2(62)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 2(62)
Title:
U. S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps. April, 1864. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography Showing a construction team erecting telegraph wires, with men perched at the top of the poles: 'This sketch represents the Telegraph Construction Corps of the Army of the Potomac putting up the wire. The Corps was composed of about one hundred and fifty men, with a requi...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1864
Extent:
1 item

8. 1784.a.13, 2(70)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 2(70)
Title:
Army repair shop. February, 1864 [A field workshop in the Ninth Army Corps, before Petersburg]. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View of the tents of the repair shop, with craftsmen posed at work in front: 'The tent fly, with its partial walls of loose bricks, covers the forge. Around it are the wheel and harness-makers, evidently resting, with pleasing expectations of forming a dominant feauture o...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1864
Extent:
1 item

9. 1784.a.13, 2(74)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 2(74)
Title:
Poplar Grove Church [Petersburg]. February, 1865. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography View of the slender spired wooden church, with a group of soldiers posed in front: 'Too great a measure of praise cannot be bestowed upon a more noble and industrious body of men than the Fiftieth New York Volunteer Engineers. In the midst of great demands made upon their...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1865
Extent:
1 item

10. 1784.a.13, 2(76)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.13, 2(76)
Title:
A fancy group. Front of Petersburg, August, 1864. Photographer: Knox, David
Scope & Content:
Genre: War Photography Group of members of the Army of the Potomac seated in front of tents, with two negro men holding cocks which they are about to release to fight: 'The monotony of camp life [during the siege of Petersburg] was relieved by every variety of amusement that was known, or could...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1864
Extent:
1 item