Greg Taylor
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2011
- Location
- Los Angeles
This photo may very well include my great-great grandfather, William B. Phillips. It is in the Library of Congress collection and is entitled " Washington DC-Brigade HQ at Fort Lincoln c.1861"
He was on the Brigade staff while at Fort Lincoln as a part of the defenses of Washington D.C. I have no verfiable photo of his so I can't determine if one of these men is him. To do so I need a more accurate date of the photo. I know that 1861 is incorrect because the commander of the Brigade Col. Augustus A. Gibson, who is in the photo was the Commander of Fort Delaware until August 1862. What I want to know is if anyone has an idea of how I can get a better date on the photo which is from a large Matthew Brady collection of 7,000 photos aquired by the LOC in 1977.