Burning of the White House, Virginia, American Civil War Finish:Float frame Member of the Parliamentary Commitee

Member of the Parliamentary Commitee of Essex

He wears a top hat frock coat and carries a cane

26th November 1963

Primitive pole lathe

Illustration to accompany Michael Lort's letter on the effects of a thunderstorm

Burning of the White House, Virginia, American Civil War Finish:Float frame Member of the Parliamentary CommiteeBurning of the White House, Virginia, American Civil War, 26 June 1862. Union troops, under the command of General George B McClellan, abandoning their position at the White House and breaking up the commissariat depot on the Pamunkey River. Meanwhile the Union flotilla departs for the James River.