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File Details: AMHMm, 300 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 7.1 Mb

Image ID: AMHM

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1864.05

Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.

Equipment:

barrel, horse; mule; wall tent; wedge tent

Locations & Lines:

Belle Plain VA; Potomac River; Virginia

Military Units:

2nd Corps; Army of the Potomac; US Army

Structures & Establishments:

Lower wharf (Belle Plain VA)

Transports:

2nd Corps mail wagon; barge; buggy; freight wagon; side-wheeler John Brooks; tugboat

Sources:

Chrysler Museum of Art; Library of Congress; National Archives Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Belle Plain Landing, Va.

Chrysler Museum says: Belle Plain Landing, Appomattox River [sic], Virginia, Sheridan’s Cavalry. May 1864.

National Archives says: Scene on the James River [sic], 2nd. Corps camp.

Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 4, p. 43.

Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 8, p35.

Etched onto negative: No. 99, 8891 [both crossed out]. 338.