Title inscribed below image: Commencement of the battle of Hanover Ct. House. 1:45 PM.
May 27, 1862 – drawn by Alfred R. Waud.
- Inscribed above image in black ink, left to right: Cavalry. The Rebel Army. Bensons Horse Artillery. Johnsons infantry.
- Published in: Harper’s Weekly, June 21, 1862, p. 397, inscribed in Harper’s “From sketches by an officer who was present.”
drawing on brown paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 21.1 x 36.2 cm.
Part of Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Record page for this image: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004660266/
Harper’s Weekly Image:
Cumberland Landing, Va. Secret Service men at Foller’s House.
Seated behind the men at the table is the head of McClellan’s secret service of detectives and spies, “Major Allen,” smoking a pipe. Known as “E. J. Allen,” it is several years before his identity is revealed as Allen Pinkerton, a Scotchman who had emigrated to the United States about 20 years earlier and created a successful detective agency in Chicago. He had become the chief detective for McClellan when McClellan was in charge of the Department of the Ohio. Shortly after the first battle at Bull Run, Pinkerton brought his entire agency, men and women, into “information” work for the government. (info source: Signal Corps Association.)
Title is from “Civil War photographs, 1861-1865” compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign
Photographed by James F. Gibson
Part of Civil War glass negative collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Record pages for this image: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000054/PP/
Civil War envelope showing bust of Columbia encircled with laurel branches bearing message “Dedicated to the gallant defenders of our National Union”
Addressed to Mr. Emil Fourgerel, No. 16 East Fifth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio; postmarked Newport, R.I., May 23; bears 3 cent stamp.
Collection: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress)
This envelope and additional information may be found here at the Library of Congress
Cumberland Landing, Virginia.
Title is from Civil War caption books. A letter by Robert Pinkerton in the LOC collections file has additional information:
In the back row, left to right: H.B. Seybolt, Paul H. Dennis, (unidentified provost guard), Allan Pinkerton, (provost guard), George H. Bangs, (provost guard), John Babcock, Robert Pinkerton. In the front row, left to right: Paul Dennis, D.G. McCaulvey, William Pinkerton, Sam Bridgman. Lying down in front on the left is William B. Watts, chief wagon-master, and on the right is Sam Washingtin, cook.
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign
Photographed by James F. Gibson
Part of Civil War glass negative collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Record pages for this image:
Embarkation for White House Landing, Va. from Yorktown; Stereograph showing Union soldiers and supplies including stacks of cannon balls at the dock in Yorktown, Virginia. Steamships in the distance will transport the supplies to White House Landing Virgina.
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign
Brady & Co. (Washington, D.C.), photographer
Part of Civil War glass negative collection. Another version in stereograph card collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Record page for this image: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000047/PP/ and http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011660458/
![Our Steamers passing sunken trees in the Pomonkey[sic] River, going up May 17th](https://dotcw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Our-Steamers-passing-sunken-trees-in-the-Pomonkeysic-River-going-up-May-17th_thumb.jpg "Our Steamers passing sunken trees in the Pomonkey[sic] River, going up May 17th")
Our Steamers passing sunken trees in the Pomonkey[sic] River, going up May 17th
Artist: Arthur Lumley
- Title inscribed above image.
- Inscribed below image: Currituck Capt. W.F. Shunkerd[?]; Sethlow[?] tugboat.
- Inscribed in blue ink upper left: O.K., [with initials?]; and in pencil: 12.
- Published in: NYIN, 14 June 1862, p. 93, as: Reconnaissance of the Pamunkey River; Gun-boats Currituck and Seth Low passing sunken trees, May 17.
Morgan collection of Civil War drawings. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Record page for this image: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004661351/
![Our Steamers passing sunken trees in the Pomonkey[sic] River, going up May 17th](https://dotcw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Our-Steamers-passing-sunken-trees-in-the-Pomonkeysic-River-going-up-May-17th.jpg "Our Steamers passing sunken trees in the Pomonkey[sic] River, going up May 17th")
