Confederate artillery near Charleston, S.C.
Photographer: George Smith Cook.
Caption log entry for no. 10358: Palmetto Battery, near Charleston, S.C. Photo by Cook.
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(In 1863, Cook) took family and studio and left Charleston to relocate “in a place safe from military action. He chose a site near the state capital, Columbia, where there would be no danger of invasion by sea. .. By the morning of February 19, 1865 the city was a mass of smoldering ruins. .. Cook’s temporary gallery was in the path of the flames and all of his equipment, his work and his records were destroyed. .. [Source: Geo. S. Cook – Studios]
Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a redeemed slave child, five years of age as she appeared when found in slavery. Redeemed in Virginia by Catharine [i.e., Catherine] S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church by Henry Ward Beecher, May 1863 / photographed by Kellogg Brothers, 279 Main Street, Hartford Conn.
Fannie was one of the most photographed of “slave children” used as propaganda by abolitionists during the civil war. Despite her light color, she was considered black because of mixed black.white ancestry. Fannie was considered an “octoroon”as someone who was of 1/8 black ancestry.
Henry Ward Beecher, of course, was one of the leading abolitionist spokesmen in the U. S., a preacher and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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Private Charles H. Bickford of B Company, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as a child.
Name from inscription on handwritten note in case; additional information on note includes date of birth, March 1844, date and place of death, May 3, 1863, at Chancellorsville, Virginia, and name of sister, Georgeanna Hunt.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010
Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs; Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Record page for image is here.
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Dick, sketched on the 6th of May, the afternoon of Gen. Hookers retreat across the Rappahannock.
Drawn by Edwin Forbes. In another of Forbes drawings, Dick is identified as a cook. This Library of Congress image also appears in the Prints and Photographs catalog in the category Cooks–1860-1870.
Roswell K. Bishop of Company I, 123rd New York Infantry Regiment in uniform with holstered revolver
photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.5 cm (case)
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010
Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs; Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Record page for image is here.
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A tintype version of this image includes the following: Roswell K. Bishop, Co. I, 123 Reg. N.Y.S.V. Killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville, May 3d 1863.
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Sketched on the afternoon of Gen Hookers retreat across the Rappahannock May 6th 1863.
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Info on Library of Congress page:
Title: Just from Chancellorsville. An amateur quartermaster
Artist: Edwin Forbes.
Private Simeon J. Crews of Co. F, 7th Texas Cavalry Regiment, with cut down saber and revolver
Medium: 1 photograph : quarter-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 12.4 x 10.1 cm (case)
Donated by Tom Liljenquist; 2012
Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs; Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Record page for image is here.
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Note: image may be reversed – image at Find A Grave shows image with pistol in right hand vice left.
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Steam Mill near the battlefield used as a medical depot, 1863, May 1-4.
Drawing by Alfred R. Waud; Chancellorsville; drawing on brown paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 15.8 x 22.6 cm.
Published in: Harper’s Weekly, May 23, 1863, p. 333
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Summary: Print shows cavalry and horse artillery troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863. Includes men riding on a caisson towing a small cannon, a building on fire, and additional cavalry headed into action in the background. With two remarques, lower left, self-portrait of the artist; lower right, the head of a horse.
Artist: William Henry Shelton (1) (2); New York : Published by Bryan, Taylor, & Co., c1887 Sept. 15; Note from publisher states: Published for the artist by Bryan, Taylor & Co., N.Y. Limited to 750 copies.
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Couch’s Corps forming line of battle in the fields at Chancellorsville to cover the retreat of the Eleventh Corps disgracefully running away.
Drawing by Alfred R. Waud, brown paper : pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash ; 34.7 x 52.7 cm (sheet)
Inscribed on verso: Battle May 1-3, 1863 Chancellorsville, Va. 11; Corps … 26 Wisconsin; 25 Ohio; 82 Illinois; 55 Ohio; No II 2. MJB 32.
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