Image ID: AQSX

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1862

Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.

Equipment:

battery wagon; cannon; handspike (wood); 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

Library of Congress says: Washington, D.C. Park of Wiard guns at the Arsenal; H.L. Stuart, Nathaniel P. Willis, and Gen. Daniel E. Sickles at right.

Etched onto negative: 3399 [crossed out]. No. 250.