7th New York State Militia Camp Cameron D.C. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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7th New York State Militia Camp Cameron D.C.
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This photograph shows the 7th New York State Militia at Camp Cameron, a training ground on the northwestern edge of Washington, D.C., in 1861. The regiment was among the first Northern volunteer units to reach the capital that spring, after the attack on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for troops, when Washington was lightly defended and its safety was uncertain. The photograph was taken by David B. Woodbury, a Washington photographer, and it is part of the Library of Congress's Civil War photograph collection. Its record is a useful glimpse of how quickly the city filled with raw volunteers in the war's first months.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection. No. B910. · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | Soldiers--Union--1860-1870. Military camps--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 3,072 × 2,272 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51835 |
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