9 September 1864: “Wagon Park 1st Brigade 2nd Div.”

Item Description: Illustration dated 9 September 1864, by Herbert E. Valentine. He was a private in Company F of the 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers. Valentine made birds eye view sketches of the towns in which he was stationed, as well as sketches of their principal buildings such as hospitals, churches, warehouses, and private residences that served as military command headquarters and as officers’ quarters.

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Item Citation: From volume 1: folder 77b-78a in the Herbert E. Valentine Papers (#04397), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Item Transcription:

Wagon Park

1st Brigade 2nd Div. 18.A.C

 

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