Cumberland Landing Va. Federal encampment on Pamunkey River Va.; another view – 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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Cumberland Landing Va. Federal encampment on Pamunkey River Va.; another view
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Cumberland Landing, on the Pamunkey River in Virginia, was the Union supply base that Alexander Gardner photographed in 1862 during the Peninsula Campaign, when Gen. George B. McClellan moved his army up the peninsula toward Richmond. This stereograph shows the Federal encampment from a second vantage point, its paired glass plates capturing the tents and activity of a camp that stood at the head of a waterway used to land men, horses and stores. Gardner, who had been working for the Union's photographic effort under Mathew Brady, produced views like this one so that viewers could see the scale of the army's logistics, a side of the war rarely recorded.
| Created / published | 1862 |
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| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : 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. 0049 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 printer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Peninsular Campaign 1862. Military camps.United States--Virginia--Cumberland Landing. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,196 × 1,354 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52068 |
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