Title: Roach’s Springs, Va. Encampment of the Connecticut Volunteers First Regiment
Creator(s): Chapin, John R., 1823-1907, artist
Date Created/Published: [1861 ca. June 2]
Medium: 1 drawing on cream paper : pencil ; 13.7 x 28 cm. (sheet).
Summary: Soldiers relaxing around a tent, with two on picket duty.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-20469 (digital file from original item, recto) LC-DIG-ppmsca-20470 (digital file from original item, verso)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: DRWG/US – Chapin, no. 4 (A size) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
…..Title inscribed below image.
…..Mathematical sum inscribed lower right.
…..The Connecticut regiment began occupying Roach’s Springs on 2 June, 1861.
…..Lean-tos sketched on verso. Inscribed above image: Roach’s Mills Near[?].
…..Published in: Harper’s Weekly, 6 July 1861, p. 423. This is only the left half of the published image.
…..Source unknown.
…..Check: HK: Source possibly Chapin gift 1902.
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Mike’s notes:
Note – This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following:
– fade correction,
– color, contrast, and/or saturation enhancement
– selected spot and/or scratch removal
– cropped for composition and/or to accentuate subject
