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Image ID: AGCD

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1862-1864

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Equipment:

bench; binoculars; telescope; tripod

Locations & Lines:

Virginia

Military Units:

Signal Corps; US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Signal corps on Rapidan River.

Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 8, p323: Signal Corps Reconnoitering at Fredericksburg, Virginia. From December 11 to 13, 1862, four signal stations were engaged in observing and reporting the operations of the Confederates on the south side of the Rappahanock River at Fredericksburg.

Etched onto negative: U. S. Signal Corps on the Rapidan. 455.

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