Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

Union soldiers getting into position behind their weapons ready for an attack.

June 1, 2012

Library of Congress

Union soldiers getting into position behind their weapons ready for an attack

Fort Sumner, near Fair Oaks, Va.,Union soldiers getting into position behind their weapons ready for an attack while infantry men line up in the distance by the Chickahominy River, June, 1862.  (Info from corresponding stereograph print)

  • Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign
  • Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0067
  • Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.Civil War glass negative collection.  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

    Record page for this image:  http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000074/PP/

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