Image ID: AIAP

Credit:

by Gardner (Alexander)

Date:

1862.10.03

Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.

Equipment:

folding stool; table; wall tent

Locations & Lines:

Antietam MD; Maryland

Military Units:

Army of the Potomac; Bureau of Military Information (Secret Service); US Army

Persons:

Lincoln (Abraham); McClernand (John A.); Pinkerton (Allan J.)

Sources:

Allen County Public Library; Illinois Library; Library of Congress; Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Archives; National Portrait Gallery; Princeton University Library

Structures & Establishments:

Secret Service headquarters (Antietam battlefield MD)

Incidents of the War. President Lincoln, General McClernand, and E. J. Allen, Chief of S.S., U.S.A., at Secret Service Department, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, Antietam, October, 1862. [Gardner Co. cabinet card]

E. J. Allen was Allan Pinkerton’s alias.

Ostendorf, no. 64
Meserve, no. 45

Etched onto negative: 7949.

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