| Credit: | unknown photographer |
|---|---|
| Date: | 1861.05 |
| Negative Size: | 3.5 in. x 6 in. stereo |
| Equipment: | bayonet; bedroll; boot brush; cap box; long gun; pipe; wall tent |
| Locations & Lines: | Camp Cameron (Washington DC); District of Columbia; Washington DC |
| Military Units: | 7th New York State Militia; US Army |
| Sources: | Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection |
| Persons: | Brownell (Silas B.); Burgher (William P.L.); Master Tom; Pease (Mr.); Rogers (Edmund P.); Rogers (Philip C.); Shumway (Henry C.); Smith (Lt.) |
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Image ID: AHHQ
Library of Congress says: 7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861.
Library of Congress also says: Union soldiers with rifles stand in front of tent “10” at Camp Cameron, Washington, D.C., as an African American boy sits in front shining boots. [Photograph shows group portrait of identified soldiers, Captain Henry Colton Shumway of Co. H, 7th New York Infantry Regiment, Captain Edmund Pendleton Rogers of Co. H and Co. K, 7th New York Infantry Regiment, and Captain Philip Clayton Rogers of Co. K, 55th New York Infantry Regiment and Co. H, 39th New York Infantry Regiment; also, soldiers partially identified as Sergeant Wm. P.L. Burgher, Private Brownell, Lieutenant Smith, Private Spencer, Pease, and an African American boy partially identified as Master Tom]
Sign on tent says: 10.
Etched onto negative: 72.