CULPEPER COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
“This rare March 1864 photograph...reveals the tortured, fenceless and largely treeless landscape of Culpeper County that all-out war visited upon the vast expanse between the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers. The photograph—taken toward the northwest—was secured from atop a railroad car, and a railroad turntable is observed over to the right.
A Union infantry regiment’s camp (3rd Corps) is depicted upon the knoll. Culpeper C.H. is over to the right, out-of-sight, and Pony Mountain (as soldiers called it) is straight ahead. Through the haze of smoking camp fires, Clark’s Mountain can be observed over to the far left.” — Clark B. Hall
Photo image from National Archives 111-B-427
H/t Robert Gray
Miners working a prospect on Cheyenne Mountain (El Paso County Colorado) ca. 1870s.
