[Corporal Alvin B. Williams of Company F, 11th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, with musket and a bayonet in scabbard; dog tag in case] (LOC)

[Corporal Alvin B. Williams of Company F, 11th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, with musket and a bayonet in scabbard; dog tag in case]

 

[between 1862 and 1864]

 

1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.4 cm (case)

 

Notes:

Title devised by Library staff.

Case: Rinhart, no. 212.

Additional information in collections file.

A dog tag accompanying this image bears the soldier's identification. Hailing from New London, N.H., Williams enlisted as a Private on August 11, 1862, at the age of 18. He was killed on May 12, 1864, near Spotsylvania Court House, Va. Three weeks earlier, his brother Oscar Williams, also of the 11th New Hampshire, died of pneumonia at the Army General Hospital in Annapolis. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010)

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).

 

Subjects:

Williams, Alvin B.

United States.--Army.--New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 11th (1862-1865)--People.

Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.

Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.

 

Format: Dog tags--1860-1870.

Portrait photographs--1860-1870.

Ambrotypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Ambrotype/Tintype filing series (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650518

Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519

 

More information about this collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj

 

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.26873

 

Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2022

 

 

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