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Carte de visite by Samuel Masury of Boston, Mass. The Union regiments who fought at the First Battle of Bull Run included the 5th Massachusetts Infantry, which marched into the fight proud of their nom de guerre “Steady Fifth.” According to a sketch of the regiment, the men and officers received the name from President Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet “on account of gentlemanly conduct and soldierly bearing.”
One of the officers at Bull Run on that broiling summer’s day is pictured here. Caleb Drew of Charlestown, Mass., had joined the Charleston City Guards militia company as a second lieutenant in March 1861—a full month before the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The Guards became Company K of the 5th when the regiment formed to put down the rebellion.
Drew and his comrades numbered among the first regiments to arrive in the Union capital. It was here on June 14, 1861, when President Lincoln and his Cabinet reviewed the Bay Staters and branded them the Steady Fifth. By this time, Drew had received a promotion to first lieutenant.
Six weeks later, the men proved themselves in combat at Bull Run, arriving on the field from Alexandria via Centerville. According to the regimental sketch, the 5th fought more than two hours, losing its colonel, who suffered a wound, and 16 other casualties. “However much has been said about the rout and disorder" of Union troops following the loss, "it should be said here in emphatic terms that the Steady Fifth retired in good order and, upon n return to Centerville, halted for five hours, and thence under orders, took up a steady march back to Alexandria.”
The 5th mustered out soon after, bringing their first term of federal enlistment to a close.
The following year, the 5th received a second call to federal service. Drew returned, this time as captain and company commander. He’s pictured here at this rank. The regiment served a nine-month stint in North Carolina, where Drew’s company were recognized as one of the best in successful operations to keep the territory in Union hands.
Drew sat out a third call for 100 days in 1864 and remained in Charlestown, where he worked as a trader. He died of complications from a tumor on July 19, 1871, just a few days before the 10th anniversary of First Bull Run. His wife, whom he had married in 1861, survived him.
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Carte de visite by an unidentified photographer. A mother sits behind a curtain, steadying her child for the photographer. The interplay of the plaid dress and socks with the curtain's floral stripe pattern creates a pleasing contrast.
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Carte de visite by A. Jewett of Washington, D.C. A Union soldier wears a nine-button jacket with distinctive edge trim on the low collar, waist and cuffs. The chevrons denote his rank as a corporal and the wide service stripe above the looped trim on his cuff his status as a re-enlisted veteran. Also visible is his starched shirt-collar and tie, vest and watch fob. A pair of trousers that appear to match the color of his jacket completes the picture.
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Carte de visite by the Fisher Brothers of Boston, Mass. One of the lesser-known aspects of the carte de visite is that it provided a new revenue stream for photographers—copy photographs. In 1861, when the carte took hold in the U.S., photographers advertisers offered their services as copyists to preserve Daguerreotypes taken in the 1840s and 1850s as ambrotypes, a relatively new and slick format. Within a short time, the carte de visite, not the ambrotype, became the choice for consumers to copy old photos of their loved ones. Cartes were inexpensive, easily reproduced, and, should the owner desire more prints, they were sharable with family and friends.
The inscription on the back of this carte documents the need: "Copied Sept. 1868 from Daguerreotype taken Aug. 1851—father died Sept 23 1868"
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Carte de visite by J. Gurney & Son of New York City. Capt. Edmund Kirby “Ned” Russell was in harm’s way on numerous occasions on April 2, 1865. As an aide to Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright of the veteran VI Corps, Russell carried orders back and forth on behalf of his general as the troops smashed into and broke the tattered Confederate lines in front of Petersburg. Their actions and those of other Union forces prompted the withdrawal of President Jefferson Davis and the rest of the rebel government from Richmond. Somehow, Russell emerged unscathed. His last order of the day was to find a suitable place for Gen. Wright to establish his headquarters for the night. The deed done, Russell rode his trusty horse Gus to the general to inform him of the evening plan. He dismounted and left Gus alone while he hunted up Wright. In a letter written soon after the events of that day, he explained what happened next: “A bullet struck my horse Gus that I had ridden since July ’63 wounding him mortally so that in mercy I took him away a short distance & shot him. He was a good, staunch horse had carried me faithfully & well through all the fights since my attachment to the staff.”
Russell had originally served on the staff of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, widely regarded as one of the best officers in the Army of the Potomac. But after he was struck down by a sharpshooter’s bullet on May 9, 1864, command of his VI Corps was given to Wright.
By this time, Russell was ready to rejoin his regiment, the 67th New York Infantry. He had dropped out of West Point to join the regiment in June 1861. But he could not be spared from his duties on the Corps staff and so he remained with Wright.
Russell was present during the days following the fall of Richmond and Petersburg. On April 9, he was moving forward towards Appomattox when in his front a white flag appeared, and with it a messenger announcing that Gen. Robert E. Lee and Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant were discussing surrender terms.
Less than a week later Russell received the news of the assassination of President Lincoln. He remarked, “What a loss to the country is Lincoln. The South has lost its friend in power & in his place has got one of its most bitter enemies. I have been no advocate of A.L. while living but since our late successes he has shown a true Christian charity & kindness of disposition to the people of the South.”
Russell may have been thinking of a specific Southerner—his cousin, Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith. He held out against Union forces until compelled to surrender his forces on May 26, 1865, at Galveston, Texas.
After the war’s end, Russell received a brevet rank of major for “faithful and meritorious service in the line of duty and as a staff officer.” He went on to join the regular army and retired in 1898 as major of the 1st U.S. Artillery. He died in 1911 at age 70.
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Étape de 25 km du chemin de Saint Jacques de Compostelle dans l'Oberland bernois, avec vues sur l'Eiger, le Mönch et la Jungfrau
Carte de visite by an anonymous photographer. Perhaps one of the most recognizable faces to students of the Civil War is not a famous general, but a sergeant. Alfred A. Stratton's (1845-1874) story is well-known and often told. This version, by correspondent Berry Craig for Orthotics and Prosthetics News, provides a solid overview of the man, husband and soldier:
Civil War Amputee Ended Up a Minister, Husband and Father
Though he lived only to age 29, Alfred A. Stratton led a full life.
Stratton was a 19-year-old private in Company G of the 147th New York Infantry, when “both arms [were] carried away by a solid cannon shot from the defences in front of Petersburg [Va.] on June 18, 1864,” according to an old document in the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C.
The facility was founded during the Civil War as the Army Medical Museum. Stratton, according to the old document, “called at the… [museum], in good health, on Dec. 24, 1869, to have his photograph taken.”
The photos were used for medical purposes. They also were displayed at the museum and exhibited in other cities.
In addition, amputees such as Stratton had their photos reprinted as carte-de-visites – mass-produced photo cards – and sold the pictures to help raise money to support themselves. Perhaps no image was more heart-rending than Stratton’s.
There are reportedly at least seven photos of him. In one he is stripped to the waist, clearly showing his residual limbs. Both arms were missing from just below the shoulders.
Other records in the National Museum of Health and Medicine show that Stratton joined the 147th New York Infantry in August 1863, after the regiment helped the Union army win the battle of Gettysburg. Stratton had been a blacksmith in Jamestown, N.Y.
In June, 1864, Union forces under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant besieged Gen. Robert E. Lee’s army at Petersburg, near Richmond, the Confederate capital. Fighting was fierce.
Lee knew if Grant won at Petersburg, Richmond could not be defended. But not until April 1865, was Grant able to capture Richmond and Petersburg and force Lee to surrender at Appomattox, Va., effectively ending the Civil War. By then, Stratton was a civilian again, “pensioned at twenty-five dollars per month and supplied with artificial limbs of Grinnell’s make,” the old document says.
“The projectile struck both limbs about the elbow, tearing off the forearms, and greatly lacerating the soft parts above the elbow,” the document says. “Cordials [liqueurs] were given, and immediate amputation of both arms was performed by surgeon A.S. Coe, 147th New York Volunteers.”
Afterwards, Stratton was transferred to City Point (now Hopewell), Va., the main supply base for Grant’s campaign against Petersburg and Richmond.
“On June 28, he was sent to the Second Division Alexandria [Va.] Hospital, both wounds progressing very favorably,” according to the document. “The stumps rapidly cicatrized [formed scars], and on Oct. 3, 1864, he was discharged from the service.”
Stratton also was photographed in New York, where he married in 1865 and became the father of a son and a daughter. He was pastor of Washington Street Episcopal Church in Brooklyn before being named rector of the Epiphany Episcopal Church in Washington. He died in 1874.
Berry Craig is a correspondent for O&P Business News: www.healio.com/orthotics-prosthetics/news/print/o-and-p-n...
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Carole est venu me voir samedi dernier :-) Elle avait amené Célestine, des vêtements et quelques Re-ments puis on a composé cette mise en scène ^^
Carte de visite by an unidentified photographer. A butcher wearing an apron poses with the tools of his occupation: a knife and blade sharpener. The painted backdrop featuring a verdant tree, majestic mountain, and a serene body of water adds a calming effect to the composition.
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Carte de visite by J. Connery of New Berlin, N.Y. The drum and binoculars that lay next to this deceased boy suggest he had an interest in a Civil War that he would never know the outcome. Dressed in an ornate outfit with a cape, he is surrounded by the toys he loved most, including cards and alphabet letters. He holds what may have been his most favorite playthings—a hammer and a penknife.
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Cartes de visite by Samuel F. Du Bois of Doylestown, Pa. A woman identified as Anne Rebecca Mettler (or Metlar) demonstrates how to open and close a parasol. I was unable to find a good match to her name in genealogical and other records.
Pioneer daguerreotypist Samuel F. Du Bois (1808-1889) studied fine art and portraiture under prominent American painter Thomas Sully. An 1828 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he also excelled in music as a violinist and singer. By 1847, he opened a gallery in Doylestown, where he worked for some years.
In 1890, his nephew, Patterson Du Bois, noted, “My uncle died a little more than a year ago over eighty years of age. His photographic work he had nearly abandoned of late years, and had taken up his brush again with considerable success; but ill health came on, and he died a highly cultivated man and a fine musician.”
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Visite à Bushmills au nord de l'Irlande du Nord avec la plus ancienne distillerie de whiskey irlandais
Carte de visite by an unidentified photographer. Portrait photographers working during the latter part of the Civil War and early postwar period offered a variety of unique decorative borders to entice the public into galleries. Here's one of the many examples.
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My clean up uncovered this image of a rather valuable Carte de Visite, visiting card, that I worked on many years ago. As soon as photography gained a foothold around the world, a Paris, France photographer named André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri patented it in 1854. Eventually American photographers, even famous ones, took up the cause of making photo cards visitors could present and leave. Perhaps you recognize this distinguished photographer from the reverse of this card. The obverse side held a small two-and-one-half inch wide portrait of the bearer.
Boy, talk about civilized folks calling on other civilized social folk! I'd hope that you might be able to come up this an image for the other side. Of course, It would have to be properly toned and aged to be similar to this side. I decided to post a single card as large as I could. It is nearly 20meg and uploaded as a .TIFF. It should have enough size to make it useful for plundering.
Absolutely no clues on front or reverse for this crudely cut carte de visite sized image. It does have quite an early feel to it.
Any ideas as to date or location?
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Aujourd'hui j'ai rendez vous avec
mon endocrino,pour la visite du troisième mois de la prise d'hormones.
le 5/07/2012.
"Britton & Sons Photographers, 40 High Street, Barnstaple."
Written on reverse: "In affectionate remembrance of him whom we all mourn."
The combination of image detail and inscription indicates that this English couple were in mourning for a male family member who had died within the previous year. The woman is dressed in deepest mourning and would probably have worn a black bonnet and veil outdoors. Her husband or brother is dressed in what men typically wore for mourning--simply their best black suit. Outdoors, he may have worn a top hat with a crape band, the width of which would indicate the closeness of the deceased--the wider the band, the closer the relation.
The inscription also allows us to infer why so many Victorians sat for photographs while in mourning. Photography, when this image was taken, was only available to the public for about 25 years. The carte de visite, which became wide spread in the early 1860s, was photography's fourth major manifestation after the daguerreotype, the ambrotype, and the tintype--even so, having one's likeness taken was not something that occurred often, and when it did, it was often done to mark a special moment, albeit a grievous one.
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