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[Corporal Alvin B. Williams of Company F, 11th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, with musket and a bayonet in scabbard; dog tag in case]
Summary
Photo shows identified soldier. A dog tag accompanying this image bears the soldier's name. 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)
The single best source for Civil War photographs is the U.S. Library of Congress, which holds the core collections of original Civil War documentary ... The majority of the ambrotypes and tintypes are portraits by unidentified photographers of Civil War soldiers, primarily Union soldiers.
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