Image ID: AMGE

Credit:

by Smith (William M.)

Date:

1865.09.05

Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.

Equipment:

bayonet; cannon; cap box; Coehorn mortar; field carriage; handspike (wood); Howitzer gun; limber; long gun; scabbard; siege carriage; solid shot sponge and rammer staff; sponge bucket; sword

Locations & Lines:

District of Columbia; Fort Stevens DC; Washington DC

Military Units:

3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery; 3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery (Company F); US Army

Sources:

Chrysler Museum of Art; Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: District of Columbia. Company F, 3d Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery at Fort Stevens.

Chrysler Museum mistakenly credits Alexander Gardner.

Related Image is an alternate virew.

Etched onto negative: 9/5/65 No. 2, 173, 817 [all crossed out]. Co F 3d Mass Fort Stevens. WMS. No. 744. 7744.

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