George R. Latham, from near Haymarket, Virginia, served in the Union Army during the Civil War as colonel of the 6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment. He was brevetted Brigadier General in 1865.
This view of Elizabeth Station, now the county seat of Wirt County, W. Va., shows several men on the porch of the Adams Express Company depot on the Little Kanawha Railroad. Two of the men are labeled as J. Parsons and R. Springston.
A crowd of people, including children, pose on a railroad track by a lumber yard. Some are sitting on an engine, and others are on a horse-powered pulley system.
A group of men pause in their work to be photographed. Some of them are hand carrying a beam using yoke-like tools. Note the young boy in front of the men carrying the beam.