[Fairfax Court House, Va. The courthouse]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863.The Gettysburg campaign began in Virginia. Lee's army was moving north. Hooker's Union army kept pace with Lee, maintaining a position between the Confederates and Washington. The cavalrymen in this photograph were part of the Union force. The campaign reached its climax with the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3.Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0185Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress)