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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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(17)
Title:: Military bridge, across the Chickahominy, Va. Photographer: Woodbury, D. B.
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View from the riverbank looking towards the bridge, with a large group of soldiers posed on the structure: 'The picture is taken at a point where the accumulated waters most presented the character of a stream, the swamp being in some places all of a mile in width, and su...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(18)
Title:: Ruins of Norfolk Navy Yard, Va. December, 1864. Photographer: Gardner, James
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View looking along the waterfront, with the ruined shell of a building on the left and a figure seated among the masonry debris in the foreground: 'On Saturday, the 23rd of April, 1861, the questionable policy of destroying this Navy Yard was enforced ... Some of the shop...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Dec 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(19)
Title:: Antietam Bridge, MD. September, 1862. Photographer: Gardner, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View looking down onto the stone bridge over Antietam Creek, with wagons crossing, near the site of the Battle of Antietam: 'This structure … is one of the most memorable spots in the history of the war, although but little suggestive in its present sunny repose, of the s...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Dec 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(20)
Title:: Burnside Bridge, across Antietam Creek, MD. September, 1862. Photographer: Gardner, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View looking down onto the bridge: 'One mile below Sharpsburg on Antietam Creek, a stone structure, known as 'Burnside Bridge,' crosses the stream. Bold bluffs, crowned with oaks and fringed with tangled bushes, forms a most delightful valley, through which the miniature ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(21)
Title:: Tunker [sic, for Dunker] Church, Battlefield of Antietam, MD. Photographer: Gardner, James
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography General view of the small brick church, seen from the road: 'This Church is located on a ridge near Sharpsburg, on the battle-field of Antietam, and suffered severely in that engagement … The attack of King's Division, temporarily commanded by General Hatch, was made upon...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(22)
Title:: Signal tower on Elk Mountain, overlooking battle-field of Antietam. September, 1862. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View of the log watch tower, with soldiers posed on and around the structure: 'The Elk Mountain Signal Station was operated by Lieutenants Pierce and Jerome, and the view was taken while the former officer was receiving a dispatch from General McClellan, probably requesti...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1862
Extent:: 1 item

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