Image ID: AJQB

Credit:	by Gibson (James F.)
Date:	1862.06
Negative Size:	4 in. x 10 in. stereo
Equipment:	cannon; field carriage; handspike (wood); Howitzer gun; scabbard; sponge and rammer staff; sponge bucket; sword; wall tent
Locations & Lines:	Fair Oaks VA; Virginia
Military Units:	2nd US Artillery; 2nd US Artillery (Battery A); Army of the Potomac; US Army
Persons:	Clark (Robert); Dennison (William N.); Pennington (Alex C. M. Jr.); Tidball (John C.)
Sources:	Chrysler Museum of Art; Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 435. Captain Tidball and Staff near Fair Oaks. [Gardner Co. stereo card]

Cannon barrel markings read “PTSL No. 247 PIC 816 lbs.”

Katz, Witness To An Era: [A]ll members of Horse Battery A, 2nd U.S. Artillery.

Gardner No. 435.

Etched onto negative: 16 [crossed out]. 435.

Seeing the Civil War