Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: ACVIm, 300 DPI, TIFF, Copy Negative, 1.1 Mb

Image ID: ACVI

Credit:	unknown photographer
Date:	1862
Equipment:	battery wagon; cannon; sponge and rammer staff; sponge bucket; traveling forge; Wiard field carriage; Wiard rifle gun
Locations & Lines:	District of Columbia; Greenleaf’s Point DC; Washington DC; Washington Arsenal (Washington DC)
Military Units:	Excelsior Brigade; Excelsior Brigade (3rd Battery); US Army
Sources:	National Archives

National Archives says: Park of artillery.

US Arsenal Yard. Excelsior Brigade battery wagon.

The original negative and prints are gone. All extant prints are from copy negatives, reducing the image to album card (or faux stereo card) size.