Melissa R, Eugene A, and DeWitt C Smith (1861)
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Here are DeWitt Clinton Smith and his family in an ambrotype photograph probably taken as he prepared to leave his home in Minnesota for the war in the east. He’d married Melissa R. Shepard (1827-1905) in Michigan in 1847 –… continue reading
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Col William H Blair (c. 1863)
This serious face belongs to William H Blair, a lawyer from Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He was Captain of Company G, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry and led them with “great gallantry in storming and taking Antietam Bridge 17 September 1862 under Maj. Gen.… continue reading
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Dr R.T. Royston (c. 1855)
It’s a shame about the condition of this daguerrotype – but at least we can get a hint about what Dr. Robert T Royston looked like before the war. A physician of some 10 years experience, he enlisted in the… continue reading
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Tom McBryde (c. 1930)
At 18 years old, in March 1862, Thomas Calvin McBryde left his parents’ small farm at Snow Hill in Wilcox County, AL to enlist in the Cedar Creek Guards, who soon after became Company C of the 44th Alabama Infantry.… continue reading
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Walter and Steele Williams (c. 1861)
In October 1861 Walter S Smith (1845-1919), not quite 16, enlisted with his father, 40 year old Punxsutawney tinsmith Steele Semple Williams, in Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry; Walter as a Musician, Steele as a Sergeant. Walter survived… continue reading
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Brig. Gen. E.W. Hincks (c. 1865)
PHOTOGRAPH 166. Case of Recovery after a Penetrating Gunshot Wound of the Ascending Colon. Colonel Edward W Hincks, commanding the 19th Massachusetts Infantry, was severely wounded at about noon on 17 September 1862 at Antietam. He was hit by a… continue reading
