Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: AEZT

Credit:

unknown photographer
Date:

1864-1865
Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.
Equipment:

flag; folding chair; scabbard; sword
Locations & Lines:

Petersburg battlefield VA; Virginia
Military Units:

5th Corps; US Army
Persons:

Bankhead (Henry C.); Clark (1st Lt.); Drum (Capt.); Gentry (William T.); Higbee (1st Lt.); Locke (Frederick T.); Marvin (Capt.); Milhau (Surg.); Rickett (Lt.); Smith (Capt.); Warren (Gouverneur K.); Warren (Lt.); Whaler (Lt.)
Sources:

Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Headquarters of the 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac, at the home of Col. Avery near Petersburg, Virginia. [Photograph shows General G.K. Warren and other officers of the 5th Army Corps gathered outside house in front of their flag] [Soldiers identified on mount as: Lieut. Higbee, Lt. Rickett A.D.C., Lt. Warren A.D.C., Lt. Col. Locke A.G., Lt. Col. Bankhead Insp. Genl., Capt. Marvin(?) Asst. A.G., Capt. Gentry Com. Musters, Surgeon Milhau, Capt. Smith Com. Subsistence, Captain Drum Ambulance Off., Lt. Clark Signal Off., Lt. Whaler Com’g. Escort.”]

Library of Congress dates as June, 1864, but this 5th Corps flag was adopted August 1, 1864.

Etched onto negative: No. 3, 9432 [both crossed out]. No. 37. No. 179.

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