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Pleasanton's Headquarters, Auburn, VA

The image shows Pleasanton's Headquarters with Cavalry Corps gathered between two lines of A-frame tents. Inscription on verso: "Pleasanton's Hdqtrs. Auburn, Va." and "Genl. Ordway Gardner Coll." Numeric notations on verso: "VIII" and "273."

GLC05111.01.0996

Group photo of officers

The image shows a group of 13 officers posed before an open A-frame tent. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "624" and "XXXV."

GLC05111.01.0998

Soldiers on a pontoon bridge

The image shows a group of soldiers posed on a pontoon bridge with a single soldier crouched next to the water in the foreground. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "764."

GLC05111.01.0999

Town scene

The image shows a town scene with two covered wagons and various horses in the background. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "IV" and "534."

GLC05111.01.1000

Army blacksmith at Antietam

Same as #1001. The image shows a busy blacksmith's shop with what appears to be an African-American smith seated in the center of the photo surrounded by equipment and soldiers. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "V" and...

GLC05111.01.1002

Soldiers seated at their tent

The image shows two soldiers seated in front of their A-frame tent. Inscription on verso: "Ordway Gardner Coll." Numeric notations on verso: "VIII" and "215."

GLC05111.01.1003

Soldiers at mealtime

The image shows a group of soldiers eating near a small A-frame tent, in a field with scattered trees. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "IV" and "645."

GLC05111.01.1006

Officers on porch

The image shows 7 officers posed on a house porch wearing knee-high boots and sabers, possibly indicative of Cavalry Officers. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XXIV" and "1022."

GLC05111.01.1007

Soldiers in a group photo

The image shows 15 soldiers standing and seated posed for a group picture in front of a white, wooden building. The men are wearing various uniforms, some with one stripe on the pant leg. Numeric notation on recto: "1001." Inscription on verso:...

GLC05111.01.1009

Officers of 1st Connecticut at Fort Darling

(Same as #1013 and #1015.) This photo is darker than the other two. The image shows approximately nine Union officers seated in a semi-circle behind a fence and near a cabin. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "11." Written...

GLC05111.01.1014

Camp scene

The image shows a field with a wooden railing going downhill on the right and two wagons on the lower left. A large camp sits on a gradual rise in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "816."

GLC05111.01.1018

Camp Scene

The image shows a camp scene with one Sibley tent and various A-frame tents, an unidentifiable flag is flying on the left of the photo, and three men stand in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner" and "Army of Pot. Frederick." Numeric...

GLC05111.01.1020

Camp scene

The image shows a large unidentified camp with Sibley tents on a wide open field. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "704."

GLC05111.01.1022

Supply wharf

The image shows a supply port with numerous barrels, a Sibley tent, storehouses and boats in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "680" "680" and "VI."

GLC05111.01.1025

Supply center

The image shows numerous supply barrels, with two men loading two covered wagons, and a train in the distance. Numeric notation on recto: "240." Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notation on verso: "819."

GLC05111.01.1026

Pontoon bridges

The image shows two pontoon bridges across a river with two men crouching on the bridge in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "765."

GLC05111.01.1027

Bombed structure with pontoon bridges

The image shows a wooden cabin destroyed by a shell with two pontoon bridges crossing a river. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "766." Deleted numeric notation on verso: "767."

GLC05111.01.1028

Pontoon docks with sailboat

The image shows two pontoon docks with covered wagons receiving or delivering supplies to sailboats on a river. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "705."

GLC05111.01.1029

Footbridge along a river

The photo shows a wooden foot bridge over a gorge, with a river in the upper right-hand corner of the image. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XII" and "1119."

GLC05111.01.1030

Wooden bridge over a river

The image shows a wagon crossing a wooden bridge over a river, with a man wading in the river below . Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "IV" and "521."

GLC05111.01.1031

Bombproof quarters for black soldiers

(Same as #1037.) The image shows a group of black soldiers sitting on a hill and three others standing below them near bombproof quarters. Numeric notation on recto: "804." Inscriptions on verso: "Gardner" and "Bombproof Quarters Fed." Numeric...

GLC05111.01.1033

Camp scene with black soldiers.

The image shows a camp scene in the woods with a black soldier writing near his A-frame tent, other soldiers are reclining and a group stands with their guns in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Ordway Gardner Coll." Numeric notations on verso:...

GLC05111.01.1035

Cedar Mountain battlefield, Bull Run

The image shows a group of black soldiers reclining and standing amongst the trees on the edge of a battlefield. Numeric notation on image: "504." Inscriptions on verso: "Cedar Mountain Battlefield West View Aug. 62" and "Gardner." Numeric notations...

GLC05111.01.1036

Bombproof quarters for black soldiers

The image shows bombproof quarters with various black soldiers sitting, and others standing in the distance with their guns. Inscription on verso: "Gardner" and "Bombproof Quarters. Federal." Numeric notations on verso: "XI-III" and "805."

GLC05111.01.1039

Union officers sitting for a meal with camp scene behind

The image shows 5 Union officers seated at a table drinking, with two young African-American men standing behind them and what appears to be a white cook with an apron. Various white and black soldiers stand in the background among the A-frame tents...

GLC05111.01.1040