Cumberland Landing Va. Secret Service men at Follers House – Antique Photo 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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Cumberland Landing Va. Secret Service men at Follers House comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cumberland Landing Va. Secret Service men at Follers House
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Cumberland Landing, on the Pamunkey River in Virginia, served as a major Union supply point during McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862, when the Army of the Potomac advanced toward Richmond. This stereograph shows Secret Service men at the Follers House there, a detail that sets it apart from the many camp and battlefield views of the period. The operatives worked under Allan Pinkerton, whose intelligence network relied on scouts, couriers and interviews with prisoners and refugees. The subject headings note eating and drinking, so the scene likely records a rare moment of routine off duty behind the lines.
| Created / published | 1862 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0054 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military life. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Covert operations. Peninsular Campaign 1862. Eating & drinking. Secret service.United States--Virginia--Cumberland Landing. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,708 × 1,360 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46630 |
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