Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 19, page 168 with photograph, April 30, 1862

Includes photograph of view from Farenhold's House, possibly taken by Alexander Gardner. Transcription: "Farenhold's." looking. She wouldn't sell, but presented me with a bottle of wine, like claret. Dr. Berry at the hospital-church. Sinclair appeared again, left his field-glass with me and went off, for New York via Baltimore. A rain-storm. Aiken appeared at 5 P. M. and proposed a visit to Farenhold's, finding our way with much adroitness through the woods by a short-cut. Arrived, we find that that the enemy has been throwing shot and shell over the house, into the field beyond, practicing irregularly from noon till 4. In the dismantled house; talking with the Connecticut artillerymen; examining percussion shells thrown by the rebels. Into adjoining field ploughed up by them. Digging a shell out of the grave-like cavity on which it had created. A lowering cloudy sky overhead and presently a rain-storm which photograph View of Gloucester and Yorktown, from Farenhold's, with Battery No. 1. in the foreground.

Date

1862

Archive

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photograph

Original size

3,076 × 4,587 pixels

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