Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882) [Group of five officers sitting outside a log cabin at Spotsylvania]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0125 Author/Creator: Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882) Place Written: Spotsylvania, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: Pagination: 1 albumen print ; 21.9 x 17.1 cm. Order a Copy
A print of a photograph of five Union officers seated outside a log cabin. A tent is stretched out to form the roof on the well-constructed log cabin. The cabin has a brick chimney topped with a barrel. An A-frame tent with a brick chimney is behind the cabin. A high ranking officer sits in the center and wears a badge on his coat [perhaps, a 6th Corps badge]. One of the men wears a non-regulation checker-patterned coat. "XI" or "IX" "154." Variant sky-line above the cabin.
See GLC 5111.01.0126, .0127
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