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'Library of Congress Negative Number: LC-USZ6Z-20525'

1. Steamboats Conveying Troops and Munitions of War for the Federal Forces on the Great Kanawha, Bell Air, OH.

IDNO:: 033613
Title:: Steamboats Conveying Troops and Munitions of War for the Federal Forces on the Great Kanawha, Bell Air, OH.
Date:: ca. 1862
Description:: 'Library of Congress Negative Number: LC-USZ6Z-20525'

Maryland, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and a reconstructed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge on the Potomac River as viewed from the Harpers Ferry cemetery. Note the head stones in the foreground and the smoke stack of the burned out United States Armory below. The photograph was taken during the Civil War.

2. Maryland Heights Across Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, Va, (W. Va.)

IDNO:: 039081
Title:: Maryland Heights Across Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, Va, (W. Va.)
Date:: ca. 1862
Description:: Maryland, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and a reconstructed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge on the Potomac River as viewed from the Harpers Ferry cemetery. Note the head stones in the foreground and the smoke stack of the burned out United States Armory below. The photograph was taken during the Civil War.

Stanton stayed in close contact with Governors Pierpont and Boreman of the Restored Government of Virginia and West Virginia respectively, during the Civil War. Stanton supported West Virginia statehood and was aware of the need for a strong Union military presence in the region.

3. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War During Lincoln Administration 1862-1865

IDNO:: 041551
Title:: Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War During Lincoln Administration 1862-1865
Date:: ca. 1862
Description:: Stanton stayed in close contact with Governors Pierpont and Boreman of the Restored Government of Virginia and West Virginia respectively, during the Civil War. Stanton supported West Virginia statehood and was aware of the need for a strong Union military presence in the region.