Camp of the Eleventh Regiment, R.I.V. Col. Edwin Metcalf and Lieut. Col. J. T. Pitman Commanding. Minors Hill, Va., from October 22d 1862 to January 14th 1863

Color lithograph by Bien, 'Sketched by R.W. Rock'; view of encampment and surrounding landscape, small figures at review in foreground, men and women spectators. R.W. Rock was the pseudonym of John C. Thompson, a corporal in the regiment and author of 'History of the Eleventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, in the war of the rebellion' (1881). A former Confederate outpost, Minor's Hill was the site of a large Union cantonment housing the reserve force supporting Federal outposts in Fairfax County. This image depicts 'Camp Owen, the camp of the 11th Rhode Island Infantry Regiment. It shows approximately 100 tents, in ten neat lines of ten tents each, as well as regimental headquarters tents. Of particular interest: a line of wooden huts may be seen—the same huts described in letters written by the soldiers who constructed them. The wood was removed from surrounding farms' -- Wikipedia. Veterans of the regiment held a reunion there on September 21, 1892. Color lithograph by Bien, 'Sketched by R.W. Rock'; view of encampment and surrounding landscape, small figures at review in foreground, men and women spectators. R.W. Rock was the pseudonym of John C. Thompson, a corporal in the regiment and author of 'History of the Eleventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, in the war of the rebellion' (1881). A former Confederate outpost, Minor's Hill was the site of a large Union cantonment housing the reserve force supporting Federal outposts in Fairfax County. This image depicts 'Camp Owen, the camp of the 11th Rhode Island Infantry Regiment. It shows approximately 100 tents, in ten neat lines of ten tents each, as well as regimental headquarters tents. Of particular interest: a line of wooden huts may be seen—the same huts described in letters written by the soldiers who constructed them. The wood was removed from surrounding farms' -- Wikipedia. Veterans of the regiment held a reunion there on September 21, 1892. Small oblong folio; margins; lower right corner bent, some slight soiling. Providence, James Tyson, 1952.