Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 721. Scene at Mrs. Alsop’s House, Spotsylvania, May 20, 1864. [Gardner Co. stereo card]
Photographic War History. The War For The Union. 1861-1865. No. 721. Bringing in the Wounded. This is a view of Allsop’s house near Spotsylvania Court House, May 12, 1864, The barn is used as a field hospital, and in the foreground is a wounded soldier on a stretcher, who is being brought in from the field of battle; his comrades have stopped a moment, and the stretcher is placed on the ground; they are waiting orders from the surgeons to bring in the wounded man. The empty stretcher on the ground a little nearer the barn door tells the story of another wounded man on the operating table; and so each one must take his turn under the surgeon’s knife. [Taylor & Huntington stereo card.
Library of Congress says: Spotsylvania Court House, Va., vicinity. Burial of soldier by Mrs. Alsop’s house, near which Ewell’s Corps attacked the Federal right on May 19, 1864]
Gardner No. 721.
Etched onto and written on negative: 721.
