Headquarters and barracks of Colonel Morgan's Regt.
Summary
Photograph shows Union soldiers engaged in a training exercise or inspection, Fort Prentiss, Cairo, Illinois.
Title from pencil inscription on mount.
Additional inscriptions on mount include: "commencement of the line of Col. Oglesby's barracks", "Mississippi River", "Missouri", "Fort Prentiss[?]".
Photograph possibly taken by Munn & Faul.
"No. 2" upper left corner.
Purchase; William L. Schaeffer; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:173.06).
Tags
Date
01/01/1861
Location
Cairo (Ill.), 37.00528, -89.17639
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.