Showing posts with label union cavalryman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label union cavalryman. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Soldiers’ Homestead Advertisement by Union Veteran and Attorney Henry N. Copp Who Briefly Served With Stroud’s Independent Company, Pennsylvania Cavalry (Railroad Troops) During the Civil War (1902)


Soldiers’ homestead advertisement by Union veteran and attorney Henry N. Copp who briefly served with Stroud’s Independent Company, Pennsylvania Cavalry (Railroad Troops) during the Civil War, 1902. From the book Official Program and Pictorial Souvenir of the 36th Annual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Hand-Colored Ambrotype Portrait of Union Soldier Seneca Flint Who Served With the 2nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry During the Civil War


Hand-colored ambrotype portrait of Union soldier Seneca Flint who served with the 2nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil War. He died of disease in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on October 25, 1864.

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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Two Hand-Colored Tintype Postmortem Portraits of the Mother and Father of Union Soldier John Peter Bailey Posing His Body (1865)

Reuben Bailey with his son John Peter Bailey.

Rebecca Bailey with her son John Peter Bailey.

Two hand-colored tintype postmortem portraits of the mother and father of Union soldier John Peter Bailey from Company F of the 6th Ohio Cavalry posing his body on March 31, 1865. He died at home in Newton Falls, Ohio, from the effects of disease and starvation as a result of his time at the Confederate prison camp in Salisbury, North Carolina. Images from the American Experience documentary called Death and the Civil War.

Many thanks to the West Family blog for all of the additional information.
Find A Grave entry for John Peter Bailey.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Saturday, October 4, 2014