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Creator(s): Knox, David, photographer Date Created/Published: 1863 May. Medium: 1 negative : glass, wet collodion. Summary: Photo shows (left to right): Unidentified man, 1st Lieut. Irving Meade Thompson, 2nd Lieut. Edwin Joel Barber, Capt. George Tobey Anthony, 1st Lieut. Hiram E. Sickels, and 2nd Lieut. Hiram D. Smith. (Source: Tom Taber, 2008) Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, near the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, June-July 1863. But, the 17th NY Battery did not go to Gettysburg. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpb-04048 (digital file from original neg.) LC-B8171-7559 (b&w film neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: LC-B817- 7559 [P&P] LOT 4187 (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. 0186 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge is "Six officers of the 17th New York Battery", with additional information from Tom Taber, 2008. Date changed from June 1863 to May 1863 based on a May 3, 1863 letter from Sgt. O. Charles Benton to his wife describing photos being taken at Camp Barry that day. (Source: Tom Taber, 2008) Attributed to David Knox based on similarity to other photos taken of the 17th New York Light Artillery in 1863. Corresponding print is in LOT 4187. Reference file print in LOT 4187. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). Subjects: United States.--Army.--New York Artillery.--Independent Battery, 17th (1862-1865) United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. United States New York troops 17th New York Artillery. Independent Battery Format: Wet collodion negatives. Collections: Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints Civil War Part of: Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: