Fort Sumter (i.e. Sumner), near Fair Oaks, June 1862. A sharp fight occurred at this place within five minutes after this photograph was made. Cannoneers are hurrying to the guns as alarm is sounding

Stereograph showing Union soldiers getting into position behind their weapons ready for an attack while infantry men line up in the distance by the Chickahominy River, near Fair Oaks, Virginia in June, 1862.

Copyright in 1904 by John C. Taylor in Hartford, Conn.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative available: LC-B811-2510.