20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment carte de visiet album, 1862-ca. 1865.

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20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment carte de visiet album, 1862-ca. 1865.

Forty-three carte de visite portraits of members of the 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment of the Civil War, taken from 1862 to ca. 1865. Subjects include Henry Livermore Abbott, Captain William Francis Bartlett, Caspar Crowninshield, Edward N. Hallowell, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William Raymond Lee, James Jackson Lowell, George Brinton McClellan, Francis Palfrey, William Lowell Putnam, Paul Joseph Revere, John Sedgwick, and Edwin Vose Sumner, among many others. There are also a small number of cartes de visite of members of the 9th Massachusetts Artillery Battery and the 7th Michigan Infantry Regiment. Photographers include James Wallace Black, Frederick L. Lay, and John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass., as well as Brady's National Photographic Art Gallery of Washington, D.C., among others.

43 photographs in 1 box : cartes de visite, b&w ; 10 x 6 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7638266

Massachusetts Historical Society

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McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885

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George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th Governor of New Jersey. A graduate of West Point, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), and later left the Army to work on railroads until the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Early in the conflict, McClellan was appointed to the rank of major general and played an important role i...

Lay, Frederick L.,

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Crowninshield, Casper, 1837-1897

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 20th (1861-1865)

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Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891

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Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935

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Sedgwick, John, 1813-1864

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Sumner, Edwin V. (Edwin Vose), 1797-1863

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Palfrey, Francis Winthrop, 1831-1889

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