Gibson's Battery of Horse Artillery, Near Fair Oaks.

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Title	Gibson's Battery of Horse Artillery, Near Fair Oaks.
Creator	Gibson, James F., 1828-
Contributors	Gardner & Gibson; E. & H.T. Anthony (publisher); Gardner's Gallery (publisher)
Date	June 1862
Decade	1860-1869
Part Of	Collection of Civil War era stereographs
Series	Photographic Incidents of the War
Place	Henrico County, Virginia
Description	This image depicts Battery C, 3rd U.S. Artillery, commanded by Captain Horatio Gates Gibson, U.S.A. Gibson's battery was part of the U.S. Horse Artillery Brigade of the Army of the Potomac, which during 1862 participated in the Peninsula Campaign. Sources: Francis Trevelyan Miller and Robert Sampson Lanier, The Photographic History of the Civil War: In Ten Volumes, Vol. 5, New York: Review of Reviews, 1912, Google Books. Theodore P. Savas, Brady's Civil War Journal: Photographing the War, 1861-1865, New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2008, Google Books.
Notes	Recto: [imprinted] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Gardner & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. Verso: [imprinted on affixed label which is superimposed on another affixed label] Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 431. Gibson's Battery of Horse Artillery, Near Fair Oaks. From Gardner's Gallery, corner of 7th and D streets, Washington, D.C. Negative by James F Gibson. E. & H. T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York, Wholesale Agents. [handwritten in pencil] same H(?) as CW but diff. image. [affixed on label] three-cent revenue tax stamp.
Related Resources	MARC record: http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1855325
Keywords	Civil War; soldiers; military personnel; Union Army; United States Army; U.S. Army; Federal Army; cannons; artillery; carts; wagons; horses; Fair Oaks, Battle of, Va., 1862; Gibson, Horatio Gates, 1827-1924; stereoviews; Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Physical Description	1 photographic print on stereo card: stereograph, albumen; 8 x 17 cm.
Form/Genre	Photographs Photographic prints Stereographs Albumen prints
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2013
Digital Format	Displayed as .jp2; uploaded as .jpg
Archival File Resolution	Archival scan: 8272 w x 4030 h pixels, 48-bit RGB
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Recto and verso scanned using an Epson 750 as 1200 ppi, 48-bit, RGB, .tifs; recto and verso files combined to make composite derivative then sharpened, saturation adjusted, and resampled to 3000 pixels on the long edge, 24-bit .jpg
Call Number	Ag1982.0145
Upload File Name	ag1982_0145_049_c.jpg
Archival File Name(s)	ag1982_0145_049_r.tif; ag1982_0145_049_v.tif
Archival File Path	ARCHIVE\DeGolyer\reproductions\Ag1982-0145
Digital Collection	Civil War: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints
Library	DeGolyer Library
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using this image file. A high-quality version of this file may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.

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