. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . HEADQUARTERS UNDER CANVAS. (Cumberland. May, 1S62.)A photograph from a trer-tnp. Although a long distance from home. Mc-Clellans army presented in the early days of its march up the Peninsulamuch of the panoply of war. The camera caught a cluster of officers tents,probably the headquarters of a division or corps. 1 2-4 1 Copyright by Piitriot Pub. THE BANKS OF THE PAMUNKEY. (Looking south from Cum-berland Landing.) The ground here slopes down directly to the riv
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . HEADQUARTERS UNDER CANVAS. (Cumberland. May, 1S62.)A photograph from a trer-tnp. Although a long distance from home. Mc-Clellans army presented in the early days of its march up the Peninsulamuch of the panoply of war. The camera caught a cluster of officers tents,probably the headquarters of a division or corps. 1 2-4 1 Copyright by Piitriot Pub. THE BANKS OF THE PAMUNKEY. (Looking south from Cum-berland Landing.) The ground here slopes down directly to the supplies for the camps farther up the river were hauled along a well-traveled road which bisected this stretch of encampment. This road, calledNew Kent Road, was the main highway of the region and led to Richmond,. A VISTA OF THE FEDERAL CAMP. The Army of the Poto-mac waiting for the expected victorious advance on the Confederatecapital. Yorklown had been evacuated on May 4th and Williamsburgabandoned on May 5th to the Union forces. During the week following,the di\isiona of Franklin. Sedgwick, Porter, and Richardson, after some opposition, gathered on the banks of the Paniunkey, the southern branchof the York River. Thence they marched toward White Houae, which—after communication with the di\ision8 that had been hghting at Will-iamsburg, waa established—became headquarters for the whole panoramic view shows a part of the encampment.
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