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Title: Group of officers. 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery

July 1862; photo by Timothy H O’Sullivan. (cropped from badly aged image and digitally enhanced.)

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From Wikipedia:

USS Galena — an ironclad screw steamer — was one of the first three ironclads, each of a different design, built by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

She had an unconventional armor plating arrangement which proved ineffective. Designed by famed naval architect Samuel Hartt Pook, her keel was laid down by H. L. and C. S. Bushnell of Mystic, Connecticut. She was launched on 14 February 1862, and commissioned on 21 April 1862, Commander Alfred Taylor in command.

On 6 July, Commodore Charles Wilkes was ordered to command the James River Flotilla — Galena included — as an independent division of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. With gunboats of the flotilla, Galena afforded protection to the daily movement of army transports and supply ships along the James River from Harrison’s Bay to the mouth of the Chickahominy River, giving the indispensable protection that left the Confederate troops without ability to move effectively against McClellan’s Army of the Potomac along the James River.

Galena was detached from the James River Flotilla in September 1862 and assigned picket duty at Hampton Roads and Newport News, Virginia until 21 May 1863, when she arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was decommissioned for repairs. Her ineffective iron plating — which had been badly damaged in the action at Drewry’s Bluff — was stripped off, and she was overhauled to operate as a wooden-hulled ship.

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Photographed by James F. Gibson.

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy

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During the Civil War, Culpeper was a crossroads for a number of armies marching through central Virginia, with both Union and Confederate forces occupying the town by turn. (Wikipedia)

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Photo taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan

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Cropped from a larger image – Manassas, Va. Men of Co. C, 41st New York Infantry.

Photo taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan

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Title: Bull Run, Virginia. Federal encampment at Blackburn’s Ford

Caption from negative sleeve: Picket Station, Bull Run, Federal Encampment at Blackburn’s Ford on Bull Run, July 4, 1862.

Photo taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan

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Philip Kearny, Jr. (/ˈkɑrniː/; June 2, 1815 – September 1, 1862) was a United States Army officer, notable for his leadership in the Mexican-American War and American Civil War. He was killed in action in the 1862 Battle of Chantilly. (Wikipedia)

Date Created/Published: Hartford, Conn. : Taylor & Huntington, No. 2 State St., 1862 July.

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Cropped from a larger image – Manassas, Va. Men of Co. C, 41st New York Infantry.

Photo taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Record page for image: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000102/PP/

Cropped from a larger image – Manassas, Va.; Men of Co. C, 41st New York Infantry.

Photo taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Record page for image: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000102/PP/

James River, Va. Sailors on deck of U.S.S. Monitor; cookstove at left; July 9, 1862

 From Wikipedia:

U.S.S. Monitor.

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Photographed by James F. Gibson.

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Record page for image: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000716/PP/