Item description: Drawing, dated 13 October 1862, of Steamer Allison, drawn by Herbert E. Valentine, a private in Company F of the 23rd Massachusetts Volunteers, who served in the United States Army between 1861 and 1864 in eastern Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Item citation: From the Herbert E. Valentine Papers #4397, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC image.
Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with Colt Navy revolver and double handle D-guard Bowie knife.
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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Five soldiers, four unidentified, in Union uniforms of the 6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia outfitted with Enfield muskets in front of encampment.
Photo shows soldiers wearing frock coats and standing at ease with their Enfield Rifles. An encampment is visible in the background. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010) Photo shows one identified soldier, Albert L. Burgess, on far right.
Date Created/Published: [between 1862 September 8 and 1863 June 6]
Medium: 1 photograph : quarter-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 12.5 x 10 cm (case)
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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The Library of Congress title for this drawing is likely in error – “The Confederates under Stuart crossing the Potomac at McCoy’s Ferry to destroy the Baltimore & Ohio Canal.” This was another J.E.B. Stuart’s audacious circumnavigations of the Army of the Potomac.
The confederates are fording the river in the background and passing under the canal through a “road culvert.” The drawing, by Theodore R. Davis, was done about the same time as another drawing of his showing “The Rebels Destroying the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, as Seen from Fair View,” published in Harpers Weekly, November 8, 1862.
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Library of Congress image.
Title: Two unidentified soldiers in Trans-Mississippi Confederate battle shirts.
Medium: 1 photograph : quarter-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 12.1 x 9.6 cm (case)
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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The lady in these two images is identified on the Library of Congress website as “Mrs. Sarah A. Dasher [….], Ga.” in the image on the left and “Sarah A. Dasher,” wife of the unidentified soldier in the other image.
According to the Library of Congress, her name comes from writing on the back of the case. Accordingly, it is most probable that Dasher is her married name, as it would be unlikely that the honorific, “Mrs.” would be used with her birth name.
Less like is that the name on the back of the photo on the right was her birth name and not her married name. If that were the case, a possible match might be Sarah A. Dasher, born July 1, 1819, who married James Wisenbaker October 16, 1837. James was born in 1809 and died in April, 1868, in Valdosta, Georgia. Sarah died in 1888. Her broken headstone bears the name Sarah Dasher, wife of Jam[es] Wisenb[aker]. However, Larry Anderson, in a comment below, states that photos of the couple in the possession of descendents bear no resemblance to the couple in these ambrotypes. (edited 11/4/2013)
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Title: Mrs. Sarah A. Dasher, […], Ga.
Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.1 cm (case)
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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Title: Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and his wife, Sarah A. Dasher
Medium: 1 photograph : quarter-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 11.9 x 9.5 cm (case)
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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The images at the beginning of this post were digitally edited to reduce effects of fading of the photos and to digitally fade the frame to make the photos stand out more.
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With this image, I wanted to try something different. While the color of the case remains vibrant, the photo is often faded. With this image, I reversed that by digitally “correcting” the fade of the photo and digitally “fading” the colors of the case.
Title: Unidentified soldier from Kentucky in Confederate uniform with two revolvers.
Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.7 x 8.8 cm (case)
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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Home of Robert E. Lee. Used as headquarters by Samuel P. Heintzelman from 10 September to 8 December 1862.
Robert Knox Sneden Diary. (Wikipedia)
Library of Congress image.
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