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Camp Brightwood. Col. Henry S. Briggs, 10th Regt. Mass. Volunteers

Description: Image of the 10th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry drilling in ranks at military Camp Brightwood, Washington, D.C.; Union soldiers march led by officers on horseback; American flag, tents, covered wagons and cannons visible around the camp.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1861
Call number: priJLC_MIL_000768
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

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Review of the Mass. volunteer militia. at Concord, Sept. 9th, 1859

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Image of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia and the artillery of Boston assembled for review by Governor Nathaniel P. Banks and Major General John Ellis Wool in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1859; many ranks of soldiers outside a military camp on foot, on horseback, and accompanying horse-drawn cannons march past an assembled group of military and civilian observers; camp tents and landscape in background; small vignette with battle monument and a single man observing in bottom center margin.

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Image of military Camp Union near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with American Civil War soldiers of the 1118th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry drilling and band marching in front of rows of tents and a large American flag as civilian spectators watch; names of committee members of the Corn Exchange Regiment in bottom margin.

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Washington Artillery, Boston, Jan. 1853

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Image of the Washington Artillery Regiment outside Boston, Massachusetts, in 1853; ranks of soldiers at attention in military uniform with swords or rifles with bayonets at their sides stand in a field; civilian men, women, and children under a large tree, military camp tents, and a pair of cannons near a flag pole visible in background.

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Nashville, and the camp of the Sixteenth Regiment of Ills. Vols. Inft. at Edgefield Tennessee

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Image of the military camp of the Sixteenth Regiment of the Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Edgefield, Tennessee; tents and Union soldiers and cavalry in foreground; view of Nashville, Tennessee, along the Cumberland River, the State Capitol building, bridge, and riverboats in background.

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Camp Washington, near Centennial Grounds, July, 1876. 7th Regiment N.G., S.N.Y

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Image of Camp Washington located near the grounds for the United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; soldiers of the 7th Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York armed with rifles and bayonets shown assembled in the center of camp; large American flag flying on flag pole at center; tents and cannons surround the camp perimeter with wooded area in the background.

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Camp Brightwood. Col. Henry S. Briggs, 10th Regt. Mass. Volunteers

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