F Troop: 1865

30 to 60 seconds depending on the light.

As a former reenactor, I've been part of some unit shots done by a daguerreotypist who did images on the glass plates.

[Daguerreotypes (which create a positive image on sensitized metal) and glass plates (which use a photographic emulsion to make a negative image) have nothing in common. Exposure time for a glass negative in sunlight would be a few seconds at the most. - Dave]

Thanks for the Shorpy-zoom!

What would the exposure time on this shot have been? I'm surprised there are not more blurred forms in such a well-peopled scene.

In 1864 an order was issued from the Adjutant's General Office, Washington, DC, for the organization of a new Army Corps to be designated as the 1st Army Veteran Corps, to be commanded by Major General Winfield Scott Hancock. The Corps was to consist of not less than 20,000 Veterans who had served 2 years in the military service of the United States and had been honorably discharged therefrom. The officers were to be commissioned from those who had honorably served not less than 2 years. A recruiting office was established at Jackson, Mi, the 3rd Congressional District, under the charge of Captain R.J. Barry.

As fast as the men enlisted they were furnished transportation to Washington, mustered into the service of the United States and credited to the sub-districts in which they or their families resided at the time of the enlistment.

What does that sign on the far left indicate? I can make out 'department' but the rest is too blurry - U.S. Saddlery???

["Q.M. Stationery Department." - Dave]

Another gorgeous Shorpy civil war shot, I've pored over it for some time, enjoying all I can see... but I keep going back to that woman standing on the right, just close to the curb. She's fascinating. Any chance of the Shorpy zoom being applied to her?