[Five unidentified soldiers in Union uniform of the 6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia outfitted with Enfield muskets in front of encampment] (LOC)

[Five unidentified soldiers in Union uniform of the 6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia outfitted with Enfield muskets in front of encampment]

 

[between 1862 and 1865]

 

1 photograph : quarter-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 12.5 x 10 cm (case)

 

Notes:

Title devised by Library staff.

Case: Berg, no. 1-188.

Additional information in collections file.

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. (Source: Similar photograph in North South trader, May-June 1983, p. 23)

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

Purchased from: Amoskeag Auction Co., Inc., Manchester, N.H., 2004.

 

Subjects:

United States.--Army.--Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 6th (1861-1864)--People.

Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.

Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.

Rifles--1860-1870.

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

 

Format: Group portraits--1860-1870.

Portrait photographs--1860-1870.

Tintypes--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.27124

 

Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2271

 

 

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