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GARDNER'S "INCIDENTS OF THE WAR" ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PRINT - "General Bartlett's Headquarters, First Division, Ninth Corps"

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Original Albumen Print, July 1865. Negative by William R. Pywell — Positive by A. Gardner From Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War — Published by Philip & Solomons, Washington, D.C.

A serene and atmospheric original albumen photograph capturing the headquarters camp of the Union Army's First Division, Ninth Corps, in July 1865 — taken in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. The image depicts a peaceful encampment of officers' wall tents nestled beneath grand shade trees, with officers seated in repose and a sentinel standing in the foreground — a quiet, almost pastoral counterpoint to the violence the Ninth Corps had endured through the Siege of Petersburg and the Battle of the Crater.

The headquarters belonged to General William Francis Bartlett (1840–1876), one of the most admired Union commanders of the war. A Harvard student who enlisted as a private, Bartlett rose to brigadier general and brevet major general, was wounded at Yorktown, Port Hudson, and the Wilderness, and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Crater while commanding the 1st Division, IX Corps. Despite losing a leg early in the war, he repeatedly returned to active command, becoming a symbol of Massachusetts valor.

The negative was made by William Redish Pywell (1843–1887), who apprenticed in the studio of Mathew Brady and afterward worked for Alexander Gardner, taking many images of camps and facilities around Washington and in Virginia, and who worked alongside Timothy O'Sullivan with the Army of the Potomac before Petersburg in 1864–1865. After the war, Pywell traveled with George Custer as official photographer of the 1873 Yellowstone Expedition. The positive was printed by Alexander Gardner.

This photograph is from Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, one of the most celebrated photographic publications of the 19th century. Gardner's leading photographers — including George Barnard, David Knox, Timothy O'Sullivan, and William Pywell — contributed to the immense Sketch Book project and were scrupulously credited in its captions.

The mount bears the complete original printed imprint: "Negative by Wm. R. Pywell / Positive by A. Gardner / Incidents of the War — General Bartlett's Headquarters, First Division, Ninth Corps / July, 1865 / Published by Philp & Solomons, Washington, D.C." All text fully intact — the hallmark of an unaltered, untrimmed original example.

Presented in an archival double mat and housed in a handsome mahogany-finish hardwood frame with UV-protective acrylic glazing.

Negative by: William R. Pywell

Positive by: Alexander Gardner

Series: Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War

Subject: Headquarters of Gen. William F. Bartlett, 1st Division, IX Corps Location & Date: July 1865

Publisher: Philip & Solomons, Washington, D.C.

Medium: Original albumen print on period paper mount Framed dimensions: 20.5 x 19 inches

Condition: Good; age-consistent toning and minor foxing Archival framing: UV-protective plexiglass, acid-free matting

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