Aug 22, 2011

Spansih American War Photographs - 1898 Spanish American War SAW Camp Wheeler; 1st Florida Camp and Dress Parade; 32nd Michigan Camp; 2nd Georgia Camp Birdseye view from mountain east of Camp Wheeler

This image below is a panoramic view of Camp Wheeler. Top left group of tents is the 2nd Georgia tent camp. Middle closer to you is the 32nd Michigan tent camp. The top left group of tents is the 1st Florida tent camp.


Below is a closeup of the 32nd Michigan Camp

Here below we see the 2nd Georgia tent camp. This large cabinet card was marked with the caption you can see in pencil

Below is a cabinet card captioned 1st Fla. Camp. This is at Camp Wheeler and unfortunately the photo cannot capture the detail that with a loupe is visible. There is a group of soldiers in formation and you can actually see the items inside the open tents, including cots and clothing. This image below is of the caption cabinet card.



Here below is a closeup of the tents in the 1st Florida camp


The image below shows the formation of some of 1st Florida soldiers in front of tents.


Here is a closer look at 1st Florida soldiers in front of tent.  You can see them on the left middle of the enlarged cabinet card below.


The next cabinet card is captioned Dress Parade 1st Florida








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