Hancock's headquarters 1861 - Public domain weapon drawing

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Hancock's headquarters 1861 - Public domain weapon drawing

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Photograph shows a caisson and cannon in the foreground with a military camp and house that served as the headquarters of a person named Hancock, probably General Winfield Scott Hancock, probably at Camp Griffin, Langley, Virginia.
Photograph probably by G. H. Houghton, photographer of other photographs in this album and fellow resident of Mead's in Brattleboro, Vermont. Houghton worked as a photographer at Camp Griffin and in the Tidewater area of Virginia during the time that Larkin Goldsmith Mead spent there with the Army of the Potomac as an artist for Harper's Weekly and making topographical drawings for Brig. Gen. William F. Smith in 1861 and 1862.

In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], page 81.
Digitized, 2014. Funding from The Center for Civil War Photography.
Accession box no. DLC/PP-1975:071

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01/01/1861
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Contributors

Houghton, G. H. (George Harper), approximately 1824-1870, photographer
Mead, Larkin G. (Larkin Goldsmith), 1835-1910, collector
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Location

Langley (Va.)38.94639, -77.15889
Google Map of 38.94638888888888, -77.1588888888889
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Library of Congress
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