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pl23_cgs01739.jpg

Topographical engineers at Camp Winfield Scott, vicinity of Yorktown, Va

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Description

Topographical engineers at Camp Winfield Scott, vicinity of Yorktown, Va.Are John Donn and Frederick Dorr in this image? William Palmer, good friend ofBache and former Assistant in Charge of the Office was head of mapping for theUnion forces prior to his death from disease on the Peninsula. Is he in thisphoto?

Credit

Library of Congress American Memory Collection

Photographer

James F. Gibson

Display Date

1862

Location

Virginia, Yorktown area

Collection

Historic Coast & Geodetic Survey