Credit: | unknown photographer |
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Date: | 1861-1865 |
Equipment: | binoculars; canteen; flag; horse; long gun; saddle; sword; telescope |
Military Units: | Signal Corps; US Army |
Sources: | University of Maryland (Baltimore County) |
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File Details: AUDNm, 360 DPI, JPEG, Original Photograph, 2.9 Mb
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Category Field Photographs
Tags binoculars, canteen, flag, horse, long gun, saddle, Signal Corps, sword, telescope, unknown photographer, US Army
Image ID: AUDN
University of Maryland, Baltimore County says: Officer lays on ground with telescope. Two other soldiers, one holding reins of three horses, the other holding pole with flag. Identified in Miller’s Photographic History of the Civil War (v. 8, p. 13) as an officer in the Federal Signal Corps reading a distant signal. Version that appears in Miller is cropped to center of this image.
Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 8, p13.
Unidentified location.