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File Details: AALPm, 350 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 15.9 Mb

Image ID: AALP

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1863.10.09

Negative Size:

14 in. x 17 in.

Equipment:

wall tent

Military Units:

Army of the Potomac; US Army

Persons:

Meade (George G.)

Structures & Establishments:

Wallach house (Culpeper VA)

Sources:

Gilder Lehrman Institute; Huntington Library; Library of Congress; Western Reserve Historical Society

Locations & Lines:

Culpeper VA; Virginia

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 150 – GEN MEADE’S HEADQUARTERS, CULPEPER, VA., December, 1863.

Handwritten caption on mount of Library of Congress print says: Genl. Mead’s [i.e. Meade’s] headquarters, Culpeper, Aug. 1863. [Correct date is October 9, 1863. (Source: Susan Williams, 2021)]

Huntington Library says: Culpeper, Va. Gen. George G. Meade’s headquarters, Wallack’s [sic] house. Several white pitched tents and a few men stand between the wooden fence in the foreground and the house in the background. Title on mount: Meade’s Headquarters Culpeper.