Brigade Hdqs. at Fort Lincoln, Defenses of Wash., D.C.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0202 Author/Creator: Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 albument print ; 23.7 x 16.8 cm. Order a Copy
A print of a photograph of the Brigade Headquarters of Fort Lincoln, part of the defensive system around the capital (though technically located in Prince George's County, MD). Twenty Union officers are standing or seated on or near the first-floor porch of the building. It has a porch on the second floor as well. There is an ambulance parked on the left hand side of the image, between the end of the porch and a tree. Inscription on verso: "Gardner XXX 666. Defenses of Wash[ington]."
Information from Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2012650167/, and Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lincoln_(Washington,_D.C.).
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