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[Private David M. Thatcher of Company B, Berkeley Troop, 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment, in uniform and Virginia sword belt plate with Adams revolver and cavalry sword] (LOC)

[Private David M. Thatcher of Company B, Berkeley Troop, 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment, in uniform and Virginia sword belt plate with Adams revolver and cavalry sword]

 

[between 1861 and 1865]

 

1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.4 x 8.2 cm (frame)

 

Notes:

Title devised by Library staff, with information from Tom Liljenquist; soldier identification from Larry and Karen Thatcher (March 5, 2012).

Case: Rinhart, no. 267.

Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (D 062).

Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).

Echoes of glory : Arms and equipment of the Union. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 2000, p. 54.

Published in: Still more Confederate faces / D. A. Serrano. Bayside, N.Y.: Metropolitan Company, 1992, p. 167.

Published in: Even more Confederate faces / by William A. Turner. Gaithersburg, Md.: Olde Soldier Books, Inc.,1993, p. 109.

Published in: Confederate belt buckles and plates / Steve E Mullinax. Alexandria, Va. : O'Donnell Publications, 1999[?], p. 213.

 

Subjects:

Thatcher, David M.,--1844-1863.

Confederate States of America.--Army.--Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 1st--People--1860-1870.

Soldiers--Confederate--1860-1870.

Military uniforms--Confederate--1860-1870.

Handguns--1860-1870.

Daggers & swords--1860-1870.

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

 

Format: 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

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.32680

 

Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2803

 

 

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Uploaded on March 16, 2012
Taken circa 1861