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:
- negative http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003005949/PP/
- stereo card http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011661152/ – misidentifies location as Cumberland, Maryland. The photographer was with the Peninsula campaign in May 1862 and took a good number of photos at Cumberland Landing on the York River.
