Portraits of Civil War officers [photograph album], ca. 1861-1865.

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Portraits of Civil War officers [photograph album], ca. 1861-1865.

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Album of 66 carte de visite portraits of Civil War officers, taken ca. 1861-1865. Most of the subjects depicted are Union officers; there are a few portraits of Confederate officers at the end of the album. Most of the photographs were published by E. & H.T. Anthony from negatives by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Other photographers include James Wallace Black and John Adams Whipple of Boston, Mass.

66 photographs in album : cartes de visite, b&w ; 10.5 x 6 cm., in album 15.5 x 24 cm.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7657319

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.),

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E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

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Albert Sidney Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, on 3 February 1803 and died near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, on 6 April 1862. From the description of Photograph of Albert Sidney Johnston, ca. 1840-1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 368044967 ...

Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896

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Illustrator; Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of F.O.C. Darley [graphic] / J.W. Black. [ca. 1870] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220203675 ...

Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891

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Served with the New England Women's Auxiliary Association of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1861-1866; Freedmen's Aid Society, 1866-1873; founded the New England Women's Club, 1868; Boston School Committee representative, 1875-1878; member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1879-1888; president of the Massachusetts School Sufrrage Association, 1880-1888; member and president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women, 1880-1886; and member of the Association...

Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...