ca. 1863
GUSN-268711
Carte de visite album of Civil War officers. It is inscribed in the front with "Sarah's New Year's gift from Father, 1863." The album is lacking its front cover but the photos are generally in good condition.
There is a carte de visite of an engraving of Andrew Jackson and also General U.S. Grant. The names of the officers in the album are Burnside, Butler, Dan Sickle, G.F. Train, Bayard Taylor, Shields, Hantoglemon, Maj. Theodore Winthrop, Sprague, Michael Corcoran, Porter, W.C. Buell, Baker, Pope, Capt. Wilkes, Hallock, Lyon, J.C. Fremont, Stanton, Douglass, Ellsworth, Lieut. Worden, Lieut. Wallace, Kearney, Hunter, Curtis and Scott.
civil wars
officers (military officers)
gifts
New Year's Day
military uniforms
photograph albums
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
1 photograph album
PC009
Photograph albums collection
PC009.083
Gift
Gift of the New England Historic Geneological Society, from Walter Watkins
photograph albums
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Civil War
Item
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