Image ID: ARRV

Credit:

by Gibson (James F.)

Date:

1862.06

Negative Size:

4 in. x 10 in. stereo

Equipment:

cannon; chain; field carriage; handspike (wood); horse; limber; Parrott Rifle gun; rope; scabbard; sponge and rammer staff; sword

Locations & Lines:

Fair Oaks VA; Virginia

Military Units:

1st New York Light Artillery; 1st New York Light Artillery (Battery B); Army of the Potomac; US Army

Transports:

freight wagon

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 640. First New York Battery, 20-pound rifled guns, near Richmond, June 1862. [Gardner Co. stereo card]

MOLLUS Collection says: Battery __, 1st N.Y. Light Artillery. Near Fair Oaks, Va., May, 1862.

Gardner No. 640.

Etched onto negative: 443 [crossed out]. 640.