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Image ID: ADAU

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)

Date:

1863.09-10

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Equipment:

horse, saddle; scabbard; sword

Locations & Lines:

Falls Church VA; Virginia

Military Units:

US Army

Structures & Establishments:

The Falls Church (Falls Church VA)

Sources:

Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

National Archives says: Falls Church, Va. Old Episcopal Church.

The MOLLUS Collection says: Falls Church, near Arlington, Va.

Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 4, p79: Falls Church, on the Confederate picket line in ‘61–nearly three miles from Washington. This typical cross-roads Virginia church, less than three miles from Washington, lay on the end of the line patroled [sic] by the Confederate cavalry pickets in the summer and fall of ‘61.

Fowx negative no. 179.

Etched onto negative: 179 [crossed out]. 269.

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