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Images
Metadata
Object |
Print, Photographic |
Photographer |
Houghton, George H. |
Date |
ca. 1861 |
Print size (inches) |
6.5" h x 8.5" w |
Location |
Virginia, Mechanicsville |
Description |
Two sided card mounted with sepia tone photographs on front and back: front photo of group of men posed in field; identified as officers of Company A of the Second Vermont Volunteers, most in uniform. Numbered on photograph and identified underneath. Back row: Lt. Col. Eugene O. Cole, Charles M. Bliss, Captain W. H. Cady, Captain William Robinson, Lt. E. Appleton and Lt. Col. Newton Stone. Front row: Two Unidentified men, Lieut. Parsons, Col. James H. Walbridge, and Adj. Ladd. Trees in background, blurry on top, white tent on left. Taken at Gaines' House, near Mechanicsville, Virginia. Back photo of military camp, identified as Company A, 13th Vermont, supporting battery at Wolf Run Shoals. Small barn on far left, group of about a dozen white tents set up on hill in background. Two men sitting in foreground and two standing further back. |
Related People |
Walbridge, James Hicks Bliss, Charles Miller Stone, Newton Cole, Eugene O. Robinson, William Cady, William H. Appleton, Edward W. Ladd, Guilford S. Parsons, Abel K. |
Subjects |
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. |
Credit line |
Gift of Mr. Henry B. Walbridge |
Catalog Number |
A1986 |