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to Stockton Bates

He writes while squatting on the ground with his portfolio on his knees. Describes the soldier's life with the bulk of time spent in marching: "marching is what breaks the men down so much; they hate it worse than they do fighting." He prefers...

GLC03523.23.02

Loading the transports

A shipyard with hundreds of stacked cannonballs on the lower left and men on- and off-loading supplies along a long pier to the USS Robert Morris. Graphite inscription on verso "7" "Loading the transports The Lower Wharf at Yorktown May 6th" "300-."...

GLC05111.02.1442

Arsenal Grounds near Petersburgh RR Bridge, Richmond, Va

Published by E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Caption: "View in the Arsenal Grounds, near the Petersburgh R. R. Bridge, Richmond, Va. showing Shot, Shell, and Cannister scattered around." Large stores of munitions -- pyramids of cannonballs...

GLC05137.056

Fort Putnam, on Morris Island, near Charleston

Series title but no Anthony imprint. Shows two soldiers lounging on a pyramid of cannonballs. Cannon, ammunition, boxes of supplies and defensive walls also visible. Although this card carries the "War Views" series title there is no identification...

GLC05137.098

Arsenal grounds, Richmond, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Caption: "View in the Arsenal grounds, Richmond, Va., showing all kinds of fixed ammunition and a portion of the Petersburgh Railroad Bridge."

GLC05137.123