Image ID: AKAB

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1862

Negative Size:

stereo

Equipment:

battery wagon; cannon; limber; sponge and rammer staff; traveling forge; Wiard field carriage; Wiard rifle gun

Locations & Lines:

Greenleaf’s Point DC ; Washington DC; Washington Arsenal (Washington DC); District of Columbia

Military Units:

Excelsior Brigade; Excelsior Brigade (3rd Battery); US Army

Persons:

Sickles (Daniel E.); Stuart (H. L.); Willis (Nathaniel P.)

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Washington, District of Columbia. Wiard gun at U.S. Arsenal. (L to R: Gen. Daniel Sickles, N.P. Willis, H.L. Stuart). [Actually R to L? Sickles, still on two legs, is at right.]

Anthony No. 2285.

Etched onto negative: 2285.