Information on a Photo?

[Potter Eaton]

Can anyone tell me anything about the provenance of this photo? It's from wiki and titled Fort Burnham which was named Fort Harrison during the Battle of September 29 and 30. General Burnham was killed there on the 29th and the Fort was renamed in his honor. I'm going to try and post a copy. If that doesn't work I will post a link to the wiki photo:

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If anyone has any knowledge of the people in the photo or its provenance, I would be grateful to hear about it. The photo is also on the back of the book, <U>Fort Harrison and the Battle of Chaffin's Farm</U> by Douglas Crenshaw.

Thanks.

 

[reading48]

Sorry can't help you out on INFO tks for posting the Photo...

 

[AndyHall]

It's from the Library of Congress. Sometimes these are correctly identified, occasionally not.

• Title: [Fort Burnham, Va. (the former Confederate Fort Harrison). Federal soldiers in front of bomb-proof headquarters]
• Date Created/Published: [Between 1860 and 1865]
• Medium: 1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion.
• Summary: Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpb-01951 (digital file from original neg. of left half) LC-DIG-cwpb-01953 (digital file from original neg. of right half) LC-DIG-cwpb-01952 (digital file from original neg. of variant) LC-B8171-2566 (b&w film neg.)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Call Number: LC-B811- 2566 [P&P] LOT 4166-I (corresponding print)
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0338
  • Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
  • Two plates form left (LC-B811-2566A) and right (LC-B811-2566C) halves of a stereograph pair; with variant view plate (LC-B811-2566B).
  • Corresponding print is in LOT 4166-I.
  • Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)

 

[JohnnnyReb]

LOL, I love the BOMBPROOF in this picture. A wooden door with glass windows!

 

[Potter Eaton]

Thanks, AndyHall. That's a big help. I'm trying to identify the people in the photo. I suspect the man in the middle is Colonel Joseph B. Kiddoo of the 22nd USCT. If it is him, the big guy to his right could be Colonel John H. Holman who commanded the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, XVIII Corps of the Army of the James. The man to Kiddoo's left could be Elias Wright. All fascinating figures who I have become familiar with. If they are those guys, then my great-great grandfather was probably in the vicinity. He was Captain William D. Parlin who served under Holman in the 1st USCT. They were not involved in the taking of Fort Harrison, but they were there on the 30th for the defense of it, which was a huge loss for Lee and Jeff Davis, both of whom were supposedly at the battlefield.

Appreciate the info.

Doug

 

[AndyHall]

Those photographers were not always careful about recording exactly where and when images were made, or who was in them. But there are examples of tentative IDs of CW soldiers made through corroborating circumstantial evidence.

Good luck!

 

[Klaudly]

The captain have the rank on collar like confederate officer!

 

[Chattahooch33]

What on earth is in the left foreground? I looks like the back of an army jeep.

 

[AndyHall]

What on earth is in the left foreground? I looks like the back of an army jeep.

Artillery caisson or similar vehicle? Pull-out trays and paper labels inside the lid? Good catch.

 

[Potter Eaton]

Artillery caisson or similar vehicle? Pull-out trays and paper labels inside the lid? Good catch.

Yes, it looks like the handles are designed to allow it, whatever it is, to be carried by two men.

 

[Potter Eaton]

If the guy in the middle is Joseph B. Kiddoo, this is what he looked like in another picture. Now he was severely wounded at the end of October in 64, i.e. before the picture taken above, but I think it's him:

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Here's another picture of him after the war, I think:

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[Potter Eaton]

If the guy in the middle is Joseph B. Kiddoo, this is what he looked like in another picture. Now he was severely wounded at the end of October in 64, i.e. before the picture taken above, but I think it's him:

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Here's another picture of him after the war, I think:

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Correction: Kiddoo was wounded AFTER the picture at the top of this post.

 

[AndyHall]

 

[Mike Serpa]

A larger photo of Kiddoo.

(I don't have the source)

 

[Potter Eaton]

Thank you Mike Serpa. I think it's him. Wish I could verify.

Klaudly notes that the man to his right has what appears to be a captain's insignia on his collar. Which would mean that it might not be Colonel John Holman, since he was a Colonel and would have been the highest ranking man in the group of three I'm trying to identify. He was a captain in a Missouri regiment and I wonder if he kept his jacket. There appear to be other insignias on the opposite collar. One could be a colonel's eagle, I suppose.

The man on Kiddoo's left also has a something on his coat. Elias Wright was a Lieut. Colonel and I suppose the blurry image on his chest could be a silver oak leaf.

The photo of Kiddoo posted by Mike Serpa shows an eagle on his coat, which means the photo was shot between Jan. of 64 when he made Colonel and June of 65 when he was promoted to brigadier general.

 

[Potter Eaton]

Here's a picture of John Henry Holman, after he became a brevet general. He was a builder before the war. I think he could be the man on Kiddoos right in the photo in front of the bombproof:

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[Mike Serpa]

A very similar taken at the same spot names Fort Brady in the title.

• Title: Magazine in Fort Brady, James River, Va. near Dutch Gap Canal
• Date Created/Published: [photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed between 1880 and 1889]
• Medium: 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32773 (digital file from original item) LC-B8184-B591 (b&w film copy neg.)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.