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

York River–May 1862

May 19, 2012

Library of Congress

Union soldiers and supplies including stacks of cannon balls at the dock in Yorktown

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/

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