Richmond Grays at execution of abolitionist John Brown

Title: [Soldiers from Richmond Grays at execution of abolitionist John Brown in Charles Town, West Virginia]

Other Title: Young Confederates off to war.

Young Southerners at Richmond making light of war.

Creator(s): Dinkle, Lewis Graham, 1829-1906, photographer

Date Created/Published: [New York] : [The Review of Reviews Co.], [photographed 1859, printed 1911]

Medium: 1 photograph : photomechanical print ; image 19 x 14 cm, page 27 x 19 cm.

Summary: Photomechanical print from reproduction of sixth-plate ambrotype shows group portrait of soldiers at the execution of John Brown; most are from Richmond Grays (which became Company A, 1st Virginia Volunteers Regiment in 1861) including Robert Alexander Caskie, center with goatee; John Wilkes Booth, left of Caskie's shoulder; and Aylett Reins Woodson, bottom center; also Lieutenant Julian Alluisi of the Virginia Rifles in shako hat at top right. Tentatively identified are Louis F. Bossieux, center right; Cyrus Bossieux, top far left; Charles D. Clark, top right; David Garrick Wilson, bottom right; and William H. Caskie, behind Charles D. Clark. Photograph was previously thought to be of Confederate soldiers during the Civil War (Source: Angela Smythe, 2016).

Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-8908 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: Illus. in E468.7 .M64 1911 [P&P]

Repository: Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Notes:

.....Title devised by Library staff.

.....Illus. in: The Photographic history of the Civil War : Thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities / Francis Trevelyan Miller, editor-in-chief ; Robert S. Lanier, managing editor. New York : The Review of Reviews Co., 1911, volume 1, page 145, "Young Southerners at Richmond making light of war."

.....Photograph attributed to Charles Town, West Virginia, ambrotypist, Lewis Graham Dinkle (Source: Angela Smythe, 2016).

.....Identification of John Wilkes Booth front Antebellumrichmond.com, "Chasing Shadows 150 Years Old, Part II; Conversations Through the Glass, " by Angela Smythe, May 10, 2014.

.....Original ambrotype in private collection in Richmond, Virginia.

 

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