Image ID: AKQA

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1862.05-06

Negative Size:

stereo

Equipment:

bayonet; cannon; flag; handspike (wood); Howitzer gun; limber; long gun; sponge and rammer staff; sponge bucket; wall tent

Locations & Lines:

Hanover Courthouse VA

Military Units:

12th Maine Infantry; 17th New York Infantry; 5th Corps; 5th Corps (1st Division); 5th Corps (1st Division 3rd Brigade); US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

BRADY’S ALBUM GALLERY. No. 417. 12 lb Howitzer, captured by 17th Regt. N. Y. V. Col. H. S. Lansing, At the Battle of Hanover Court House, from Captain Latham’s Rebel Battery; weight 1458 lbs. [Brady Co. album card]

Library of Congress says: The Peninsula, Va. A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfield’s Brigade near Hanover Court House, May 27, 1862.

Brady No. 417.

Anthony No. 2354.

Etched onto negative: 11. 2354.

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