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2. Boys’ Play-ground, Colored Orphan Asylum.
The first 4 views are of the Colored Orphan Asylum in NYC. To read the story of the Asylum and its burning during the draft riots of 1863 please follow this link.
Camp Scenes. Army of the Potomac. No. 2062. Contraband Foreground. The man at right reclines on a cot with “2nd Lieut. John Shaw” written on a leg of the cot.
No. 132. Camp Scene at Fortress Monroe. George Templeton Strong seated second from left. Three African-American orderlies attend to the officers.
Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 218. Capt. H. Smith’s Mess, Co. D, 93d N.Y.V., Bealton, Va., August, ’63. Capt. Smith is seated at right going through papers. African-American camp aides in the view.
Religious Service on the deck of the Monitor Montauk. The Library of Congress has this view titled Religious service aboard the monitor Passaic, Port Royal, SC, 1863.
Col. Duryea’s Adjutant’s Mess. Possibly taken at Fort Schuyler in the Bronx NY before they headed south. Officer’s at mess, two African-American aides stand by.