Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: ARTKm, 750 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 18.5 Mb

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Image ID: ARTK

Credit:

by O’Sullivan (Timothy H.)
Date:

1864.05.24
Negative Size:

4 in. x 10 in. stereo
Equipment:

bridge pontoon (canvas); horse; pickaxe; shovel
Locations & Lines:

Jericho Mills VA; North Anna River VA; Virginia
Military Units:

5th Corps; 50th New York Engineers; 50th New York Engineers (Company H); Army of the Potomac; US Army
Structures & Establishments:

Jericho Mills (Jericho Mills VA); Jericho Mills pontoon bridge (North Anna River VA)
Transports:

bridge pontoon wagon; freight wagon
Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 749. Jericho Mill, North Anna River, view from South Bank showing engineers constructing road, May 24, 1864. [Gardner Co. stereo card]

Library of Congress says: Jericho Mills, Va. Party of the 50th New York Engineers building a road on the south bank of the North Anna, with a general headquarters wagon train crossing the pontoon bridge.

Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 5, p220 says: The… photograph shows Major Beers of the Fiftieth New York Engineers, on horseback, directing his battalion at road-making on the south bank of the North Anna River May 24, 1864. A wagon-train of the Fifth Corps is crossing the bridge by Jericho Mills, constructed on the previous day by Captain Van Brocklin’s company of the Fiftieth New York Engineers.

Gardner No. 749.

Etched onto negative: 7, 18 [both crossed out]. 749.

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