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Image ID: ACTT

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)

Date:

1864.05

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in. tetraplex

Equipment:

Sibley tent

Locations & Lines:

Belle Plain VA; Potomac River; Virginia

Military Units:

Army of the Potomac; US Army

Structures & Establishments:

Upper wharves (Belle Plain VA)

Transports:

schooner; side-wheeler

Sources:

National Archives

National Archives says: Wagon train loaded at a landing. Belle Plain, Va.

Fowx negative no. 571.

Etched onto negative: 571.

One of 28 surviving Fowx negatives created using a rotating lens mount to shoot four consecutive exposures onto one plate. For our downloadable files of the four exposures we have aligned the images so that they can be viewed consecutively (a,b,c,d), creating a brief video clip.