Ruins of Hampton Church, Va., west end. The oldest church in America. July 2, 1862

Photograph shows a man standing on a damaged wall of St. John's Episcopal Church in Hampton, Virginia, built in 1728.
Brady's Album Gallery, no. 467.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Gardner & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.

Stamped on verso: Nov. 28, 1949, source unknown.
Digitized, 2014. Funding from The Center for Civil War Photography.
Original glass negative may be available: LC-B815-459.