You are looking at an intriguing picture of Fair Oaks, Virginia,vicinity. Quarles house, where many dead were buried. It was taken in 1862 by Barnard, George N., 1819-1902.
The picture presents eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.
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