Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AACUm, 400 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 27.5 Mb

Image ID: AACU

Credit:	by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:	1863.05.02
Negative Size:	14 in. x 17 in.
Equipment:	12-pounder Napoleon gun; cannon; field carriage; gunner’s haversack; horse; sponge and rammer staff
Locations & Lines:	Falmouth VA; Virginia
Military Units:	1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery; US Army
Sources:	J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress; Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Archives; University of Maryland (Baltimore County); USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 254. – FIRST CONNECTICUT BATTERY, Near Fredericksburgh, May 2, 1863.

Later prints of this image are from a copy negative that has had the sky retouched.