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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

Sharpshooters at Petersburg

The image shows three Union sharpshooters behind fortifications with a box of artillery marked "1864." Inscription on verso: "Sharp shooters Siege of Petersburg." Numeric notation on verso: "158" and "15."

GLC05111.01.1023

Cannonball in front of trench at Petersburg

The image shows three cannonballs in front of a trench at Petersburg with a fence in the background on top of the hill. Numeric notation on recto: "3336." Inscription on verso: "Mine in front of Petersburg" "Dup" and "From P." Numeric notations on...

GLC05111.01.1024

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

Mounting guard in Fort Wagner

The image shows a mounting guard inside Fort Wagner, South Carolina. Black soldiers appear to be occupying the fort, with various other figures standing on a ridge in the distance. Numeric notations on recto: "3491" and "41." Inscription on verso: "...

GLC05111.01.1032

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

Black soldiers filling canteens

The image shows a group of black soldiers with some on horses, others reclining on the ground and a group in line in front of a Sibley tent. Numeric notation on image: "33." Inscription on verso: "Filling their canteens." Numeric notations on verso...

GLC05111.01.1034

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, Petersburg

(Same as #1033.) The image shows a group of black soldiers sitting on a hill and three others standing below near bombproof quarters. Numeric notations on recto: "804" and "152." Inscription on verso: "Making coffee on the lines before Petersburg, Va...

GLC05111.01.1037

Five generations on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina

The image shows 8 African-Americans posed in front of a wooden building. Inscription on verso: "Negro family representing 5 generations." Numeric notations on verso: "91" and "No 17."

GLC05111.01.1038

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

Soldiers in front of US Sanitary Department office

The image shows a group of soldiers standing in front of the US Sanitary Department office on an otherwise empty street. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "739."

GLC05111.01.1041

Black soldiers manning a cannon

The image shows a group of 5 black soldiers manning a cannon along a river. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "XII" and "51."

GLC05111.01.1042

Bombproof restaurant, Petersburg

The image shows a man sitting in front of a bombproof restaurant with a sign: "Fruit & Oyster House" and scattered trees in the surrounding landscape. Numeric notation on recto: "180." Inscription on verso: "Bomb-proof restaurant on the Petersburg...

GLC05111.01.1043

Supply Wharf with covered wagons

The image shows a group of covered wagons, one possibly marked with crossed cannons, and a supply wharf on a river in the distance. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "X" and "707."

GLC05111.01.1044

Military Cemetery, Alexandria

The image shows the entrance gate of a military cemetery with a Union flag flying above. Inscription on verso: "Gardner" and "Alexandria, Va." Numeric notations on verso: "XXXII" and "1172."

GLC05111.01.1045

Settler's home

The image shows five standing figures and one sitting figure scattered in front of what appears to be a settler's home. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "IV" and "543."

GLC05111.01.1046