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Image ID: AGTR

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)

Date:

1864.03

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Equipment:

bridge pontoon (wood); rope

Locations & Lines:

Hazel River VA, Wellford’s Ford VA, Virginia

Military Units:

Army of the Potomac; US Army

Structures & Establishments:

Pontoon bridge (Welford’s Ford VA); Welford’s Mill (Welford’s Ford VA)

Sources:

Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection; University of Maryland (Baltimore County)

The MOLLUS Collection says: Welford’s Ford, Hazel River, near Brandy Station, Va. Winter of 1863-4.

Often misidentified as Blackburn’s Ford, Bull Run, VA, because that’s what the original negative now says.

Fowx negative no. 388.

Etched onto negative: 388. 107T. Blackburns Ford Bull Run [sic].

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