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Camp, Gauley Bridge

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1862
Call number: priJLC_MIL_002419
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.

Tompkin's Farm. (Camp Gauley Mount.)

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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.

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

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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.

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

Visual Materials

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 Bayne, Virginia

Visual Materials

Image of Camp Bayne during the American Civil War located near Bell Plains, Virginia, with tents erected in a clearing of a wooded area; long ranks of soldiers assembled at center; a few men, a cook fire, horses, and wagons are visible around the edges of the camp.

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Camp Oliver 25th Mass. V. Infantry, New Berne, N.C. 1862-3

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Image of Camp Oliver in New Berne, North Carolina, during the American Civil War; large military camp with rows of tents and American flags; soldiers in field in foreground; river in background.

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