Bull Run, Va. New bridge built by McDowell’s engineers; photographer’s wagon at left.
Library of Congress image.
Photo taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, August, 1862.
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O’Sullivan appears to have included himself in some of his photos. I remembered having seen this particular wagon in another image recently, which turned out to have been taken in the Manassas area on July 4.
Our photographer at Manassas.
Library of Congress image.
Photo taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, July 4, 1862.
O’Sullivan also appears to have included himself in 2 other images that have already been published here:
Locomotive on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in Virginia – in foreground with back to camera, dressed the same as in the top image.
Federal battery fording a tributary of the Rappahannock – on right side of image next to the same wagon as is in the above two images.
Library of Congress image.
Title: Soldier’s dummies and quakers, left in the works at Harrison’s landing.
Alfred Waud, the artist, wrote on the back, “The soldiers tell me there was a number of these bogus guns and figures, and their appearance kept the enemy from the camp for some time after it was evacuated. The photographer has a picture of these sham guns, but it was taken before the figures were set up.”
In 1862, the Confederates had a training camp and army hospital at Culpeper Court House, and they established a supply base there early in 1862. General John Pope’s Union forces occupied the county in July 1862.
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Photo taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, August, 1862; Library of Congress image.
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Map of the field operations of the Army of Virginia during the months of July and August 1862
Notes
– Scale ca. 1:350,000.
– LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 465.67
– From U.S. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War, in two volumes. Supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1866). v. 2, fol. p. 108.
– Accompanies “Report of Major General John Pope to the hon. Committee on the Conduct of the War.” 217 p.
– General map showing roads, railroads, place names, drainage, and relief by hachures. Troop positions and movements are not indicated.
http://www.loc.gov/item/99448505
Culpeper Court House, Va. Freight train on Orange and Alexandria Railroad, photographed by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, August.
Library of Congress image.
Library of Congress image:
Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with rifleman buttons.
Medium: sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.3 cm (case)
Donated to the Library of Congress 2012 by Tom Liljenquist; Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs.
The Last Full Measure: The Liljenquist Family Collection.
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Image edited for fade correction and clarity. MpG
Library of Congress image:
Unidentified soldier in Union uniform.
Donated to the Library of Congress 2012 by Tom Liljenquist; Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs.
The Last Full Measure: The Liljenquist Family Collection.
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Image edited for fade correction and clarity. MpG
Cedar Mountain, Va. Federal battery fording a tributary of the Rappahannock on the day of battle
Photo taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan.
Library of Congress image.
