Group photograph of Company B, First Pennsylvania Reserves
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The Fairfax Station Photographs
June 1863
After a year of hard campaigning with heavy casualties, the depleted Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps returned from the front lines in early 1863 to recuperate in the defenses around Washington, DC. While in camp at Fairfax Station, Virginia, Matthew Brady's photographers paid a visit and took group photographs of many of the companies as well as pictures of the campsite. With the realism of the camera, the Fairfax Station photographs are priceless to students of the Pennsylvania Reserves. They also stand as a wonderful teaching tool for authenticity-minded reenactors, especially given the detail of the photographs. We invite you to browse these fine examples of field photography from early June 1863. The photographs on this page come from the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Civil War Photographs.
Click on a picture for an enlarged view (uncompressed versions as big as 30 MB can be downloaded from the Library of Congress website):
Group photograph of Company B, First Pennsylvania Reserves
Click on the image for a detail of the soldiers:
Click on one of these images for an even closer detail of the soldiers:
Group photograph of an unidentified company of the First Pennsylvania Reserves [LC-USZ62-98352]
Group photograph of the musicians of the First Pennsylvania Reserves [LC-B8184-B491]
More images will be posted when they become available. Several other companies were also photographed, and a picture exists showing some of the field or line officers standing in camp.
