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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.

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.)

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