New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Checking Orders at Fort Richardson, Virginia

ArtistPossibly Alexander Gardner (American (born Scotland), 1821 - 1882)

CultureAmerican | Scottish

Dateca. 1862

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 10 1/4 × 15 1/8 in. (26 × 38.4 cm)
Overall, Support: 17 7/8 × 24 in. (45.4 × 61 cm)
Overall, Mat: 17 7/8 × 23 7/8 in. (45.4 × 60.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange

Object number98.32.207

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DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. This photograph shows a group of soldiers gathered between two wooden buildings. One man appears to be delivering a letter to another man. This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].

Published ReferencesConstance Sullivan, eds., _Landscapes of the Civil War: Newly Discovered Photographs from the Medford Historical Society_ (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), 32-33, 141.