Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: ADEJm, 350 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 6.6 Mb

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Image ID: ADEJ

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)
Date:

1864.02-03
Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.
Equipment:

bayonet; cap box; cartridge box; checker piece; chess/checker board; cup; drum; drumstick; long gun; periodical; pipe; playing card; scabbard; sword, bayonet; cap box; cartridge box; checker piece; checkerboard; cup; drum; drumstick; long gun; periodical; pipe; playing card; scabbard; sword
Locations & Lines:

Brandy Station VA; Virginia
Military Units:

170th New York Infantry; 170th New York Infantry (Company B); US Army
Persons:

Keating (Washington); Silkworth (Pvt.); Thomas (Charles); Thomas (George); Vanderwater (John)
Sources:

Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Company “B”, 170th N.Y. Infantry in front of Petersburg [sic], Va.

Actually Brandy Station, VA vicinity.

Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 10, pp288-289: Union Reserves on Picket Duty. William W. Silkworth, of Long Branch, New Jersey, a veteran who had an opportunity to inspect some of the pictures reproduced in the Photographic History, recognized this group as Company B, 170th Regiment, New York Volunteers. “You cannot appreciate or understand fully my amazement and joy in the discovery,” he wrote to the editors. “There right in front of the picture sits my brother playing cards (You will note that he is left handed. We laid him away in front of Petersburg). With him is John Vanderwater, Geo. Thomas and Wash. Keating. There is Charles Thomas and all the rest as true as life. With the exception of two, I have not seen any of the boys for thirty years.”

Fowx negative no. 330.

Etched onto negative: 220. 330. wants 17.

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