Category: quickPost/Pix
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Charles Russel Train (c. 1860)
This formal portrait by Mathew Brady is of then-Congressman Charles Russell Train of Massachusetts. He was elected to his second term in March 1861 to serve to March 1863, but left Washington in early September 1862 with a Volunteer Captain’s commission on the staff of Brigadier General George H Gordon, a brigade commander in the…
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Claim Agents of Georgia at Richmond (1862-)
Thousands of Georgia soldiers died during the war, and at least two Georgia lawyers left the state and set up shop in Richmond, VA to help families back home collect the final pay and allowances due these men – serving as Claim Agents dealing with the bureaucracy of the Confederate government. If you spend any…
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S.W. Greening (1860)
This fine photograph is of Swepson Whitehead Greening and, according to a pencilled note on the back, was taken in May 1860. At that time he was a 20 year old druggist in Mansfield, De Soto Parish, Louisiana. About a year later he enlisted in the 2nd Louisiana Infantry in New Orleans. He was detailed…
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North Carolina Casualties (1862)
The Fayetteville, NC Observer of 29 September 1862 has the following casualty lists from the battle of Sharpsburg. I’m stashing them here until I get back from this weekend’s Fall Conference at the battlefield. I’ll look into each of the names then. The whole of page 3 from which these clippings came is online from…
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Dr B A Vanderkieft (1864)
Here are two excellent CDVs of Federal Surgeon Bernard Albert Vanderkieft from Mike Fitzpatrick’s collection. From 16 September 1862 to 13 May 1863 Dr Vanderklieft was in charge of the largest Antietam field hospital, known as the Antietam or Smoketown Hospital, and he and the other surgeons there treated hundreds of patients during and after…
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Pvt R.L. Hopson, 13th Georgia Infantry (1861)
This is 20 year old Rasmus Lee Hopson of Troup County Georgia, probably taken soon after he enlisted in July 1861. I expect the sword is a photographer’s prop, as may be the uniform he’s wearing. Private Hopson survived a wound at Sharpsburg in 1862 but was disabled for field service and spent the last…
