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Camp of Reynolds Battery, Stewart's Place, Baltimore, MD, 1862 antique map WI issued in the raw monthsCamp of Reynolds Battery, Stewart's Place, Baltimore, MD, 1862 a documentary photograph of artillerymen bivouacked on the edge of a divided city, where Maryland's uneasy loyalty was held in place by Union guns. Reynolds' Battery rests between drills, the encampment laid out with the patient geometry of men waiting to be ordered south. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the