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Fairfax Courthouse Virginia. Capt. J.B. Howard Office of Assistant Quartermaster Ar – Historic Print

Fairfax Courthouse Virginia. Capt. J.B. Howard Office of Assistant Quartermaster Ar, 1863 — historic photograph
Fairfax Courthouse Virginia. Capt. J.B. Howard Office of Assistant Quartermaster Ar, 1863. Historic photograph from the Courthouses collection.

(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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Fairfax Court House, Virginia, appears here as a working army post rather than a battlefield. The caption on the original negative sleeve identifies Capt. J.B. Howard and his group at the Office of the Assistant Quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac in June 1863, during the Gettysburg Campaign. The town sat along supply routes the army relied on as Lee's forces moved north, and a quartermaster's office handled the wagons, forage, and equipment that kept the army moving. The glass negative is a wet collodion plate, once credited to Alexander Gardner.

Created / published1863
Medium1 negative : glass wet collodion.
NotesPhotographer name attribution from Civil War caption books. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Capt. Howard and group. Office of Assistaant Quartermaster army of Potomac. Fairfax Court House June 1863 Gettysburg Campaign. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan5,120 × 4,167 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-48460

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