PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu01535::A Guide to Bostwick Brothers Civil War Photographs)//EN" "viu01535.xml" A Guide to Bostwick Brothers Civil War Photographs 1863-1864Brothers, Bostwick Photographs, 1863-1864 11016Special Collections Staff Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library © 2001 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word 2000, created by Sue Cuthbertson, 8/2/2001 Description is in English Feb 18, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu01535::A Guide to Bostwick Brothers Civil War Photographs)//EN" "viu01535.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to Bostwick Brothers Civil War Photographs 1863-1864 A Collection in The Special Collections Department 11016

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 2001 Special Collections Department Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Descriptive Summary Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Bostwick Brothers Civil War Photographs 1863-1864 11016 5 photographs (salt prints): sepia; 22x15 cm. and smaller English The photographs are views of the Army of the Potomac at Brandy Station and Ingalls Siding, Culpeper, Va., including headquarters of Major General George Gordon Meade and General Marsena R. Patrick. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Preferred Citation

Bostwick Brothers Civil War Photographs, 1863-1864, Accession #11016, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

 Acquisition Information

These photographs were purchased by the Library from Jerry N. Showalter, Bookseller, Ivy, Virginia, on July 19, 1991.

 Biographical/Historical Information

Brandy Station was a station of the Southern Railway (then the Orange and Alexandria Railway) and a chief supply point for both armies. Brandy Station and its environs was the scene of the greatest cavalry battle of the Civil War. Due to Culpeper's strategic importance as the terminus of two roads, one branching out towards northern Virginia and the other towards the Shenandoah Valley the area was often a hotly contested battleground between the North and the South.

 Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of five [salt ?] prints of the camp of the Army of the Potomac at Brandy Station and Ingalls Siding, Culpeper, Virginia, 1863-1864, taken by Bostwick Brothers Artists.

The photographs include the following inscriptions: 1) Officer Depot of Repairs, Cap. E.J.S., Ingalls Siding, Va., Jan 1864 2) untitled, wagons in a row with cottages in the background 3) Brandy Station, Va., Bostwick Brothers Artists, Army of the Potomac 4) Major General [George Gordon] Meade's Headquarters, Brandy Station, Bostwick Brothers Artists, Army of the Potomac 5) General [Marsena Rudolph ?] Patrick's Headquarters, Brandy Station, Bostwick Brothers Artists, Army of the Potomac