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Tompkin's Farm. (Camp Gauley Mount.)

Description: Image of an elevated view of Tompkin's Farm in West Virginia used as a military camp during the American Civil War; tents are visible spread out over fields on either side of a central roadway; farmhouse and other buildings also visible on the property.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1862
Call number: priJLC_MIL_002416
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.

Camp, Gauley Bridge

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Image of a Union military camp at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, during the American Civil War; soldiers visible on a hill looking out over the Gauley River; rafts and a rowboat ferry men across the river; military camp tents extend up the hillside in the background.

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Camp Bates, 3d. N.Y. Vol. Cavalry

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Image of an elevated view of cavalry executing military exercises at the Camp Bates military camp during the American Civil War; tents and housing visible past cavalry drilling in yard.

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Birds-eye view of the camp of the army of occupation, commanded by Gen'l Taylor

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Image of an aerial view of the military camp for the army brigades commanded by General Zachary Taylor early in the Mexican-American War hostilities; dozens of military tents spread out in rows across the beach along Corpus Christi Bay, Texas; soldiers in formation or engaged in activities in camp visible throughout area; ships in the water off the coast at left.

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Camp Belger, Baltimore, Md

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Image of an aerial view of Camp Belger military camp in Baltimore, Maryland, during the American Civil War; soldiers from the 114th Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry drilling in long ranks in yard with rows of military camp tents spread out behind in a tree-lined area; American flag on flag pole at center.

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Camp Chase, 12th. Regt. R.I. Vols. : Col. George H. Brown, Commdg

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Image of an elevated landscape view of Camp Chase, a Union military training camp in Columbus, Ohio, with tents and soldiers clustered in groups and sentries on patrol; gold frame lines around image.

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Parole Camp Annapolis, MD

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Image of an elevated view of Parole Camp in Annapolis, Maryland, during the American Civil War; Union soldiers at various duties outside rows of buildings and military tents; a large flag flies on a flagpole at center; train passing the camp at bottom right; nine buildings numbered with key printed in bottom margin.

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Tompkin's Farm. (Camp Gauley Mount.)

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