Year: 2022
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Prank CMSR record card (c. 1890)?
I’ve been through thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of the cards which make up the Compiled Military Service Records (CMSR) for my guys. I’ve never seen a card like this one (transcription below). It is from the CMSR jacket for Benjamin Franklin Taylor. He rose from Private to Colonel of the 2nd Maryland Infantry, USA…
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2nd Maryland Infantry (US) field, staff, & line officers (1865)
Camp scene taken Alex. Va. 1865; Field, Staff & Line 2nd Md. A photograph among the Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Maryland, posted to flickr; original from the Maryland Historical Society. Seated: 2nd Lt. Charles H. Boone (Co. A), Quartermaster Thomas H. Marshall, Capt. Frederick W. Heck (Co. K), Col. Benjamin Franklin Taylor, Lt.…
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Officers of the 2nd Vermont Infantry (c. 1862)
Officers of Company A of the Second Vermont Volunteers; taken at Gaines’ House, near Mechanicsville, Virginia. This small, faded photograph by George H. Houghton is online from the Bennington Museum; probably from the collection of the Vermont Historical Society. Based on the service/commissioning dates of these officers, it was taken between 21 May and 17…
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School for applicants for command of colored troops (1864)
Antietam veteran Private John Savin Appleton was a student at the Free Military School for Applicants for Command of Colored Troops at 1210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA in the summer of 1864, and afterward passed an examination by a board of officers in Washington, DC and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 31st United States…
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Leander Arendt, of Grantsville (1862)
Thanks to Christy Centeno for sending along this clipping about Private Leander Arendt from the Cumberland, MD Civilian & Telegraph of 2 October 1862; she found it online in the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America collection.
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Fair Oaks, Va., vicinity. Capt. Horatio G. Gibson and officers of his battery (1862)
This James F Gibson photograph of June 1862 is from the Library of Congress. Pictured left to right are: Lt. Henry Clay Meinell, Captain Horatio Gates Gibson, Lt. Edmund Pendleton, and Lt. William Duncan Fuller. The first three were together at Antietam in September that year.
