Westover Landing Va. Col. William W. Averell 3d Pennsylvania Cavalry and staff – Historic Photograph 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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Westover Landing Va. Col. William W. Averell 3d Pennsylvania Cavalry and staff
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Westover Landing sits on the James River in Charles City County, Virginia, and in 1862 it served as a Union landing point during McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, when the Army of the Potomac moved supplies and troops up the river toward Richmond. This glass negative shows William W. Averell of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry with members of his staff, including officers named in the record as W. H. Brown, H. H. King, and Philip Pollard. Wet collodion plates like this one required the photographer to coat and expose the glass quickly, so surviving images from the campaign are a useful record of how mounted officers presented themselves in the field.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass 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. 0095 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. Peninsular Campaign 1862. Cavalry--Union. 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry. Averell William Woods 1832-1900. Brown W. H. King H. H. Pollard Philip.United States--Virginia--Westover Landing. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,106 × 1,358 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-45977 |
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