Yorktown, Virginia Thomas Nelson house (right), used as a hospital; in 1781 used as a headquarters by Lord Cornwallis

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0045

Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.

Two plates form left (LC-B811-2336A) and right (LC-B811-2336B) halves of a stereograph pair.

Corresponding print is in LOT 4164-F and LOT 4165-G.

Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov

Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress).

Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865.

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