Yorktown,Virginia,VA,Topographical Engineers,Camp Winfield Scott,Civil War

Title: [Yorktown, Va., vicinity. Topographical engineers, Camp Winfield Scott]
Creator(s): Gibson, James F., b. 1828, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1862 May 2.
Summary: Photo shows a group of nine men posed in front of a tent with a surveying instrument at left. The two men seated center and right are most likely Frederick W. Door and John W. Donn. The officer seated to the left is William H. Paine who invented the steel tape reel worn by the man standing on the right. Standing second from right appears to be Allan Pinkerton. (Source: U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers, 2011). Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.
Notes:
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0030
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4188.
Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel.
Peninsular Campaign, 1862.
Engineers.
United States--Virginia--Yorktown.
Glass negatives--1860-1870.
Stereographs--1860-1870.
Bookmark /cwp2003000030/PP/
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