[Lieutenant Colonel Samuel M. McClelland, Union officer, full-length portrait, standing, with right hand in coat, facing slightly left]
Summary
Photo shows a Civil War officer not named in the original album. Identification as McClelland, who fought with the 7th Ohio infantry, is based on research in Civil War histories and visual similarity to portrait in book by Lawrence Wilson. (Source: Amy Jones, May 2011).
On verso: Photographed by A. Shaffer, Federal St., Youngstown, Ohio.
In album: [U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period / John White Geary, comp. 1861-1865], no. 98, surrogate p. 25 (upper right).
Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room.
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Date
01/01/1860
Location
Source
Library of Congress
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