Major General Daniel Adams Butterfield of 12th New York Infantry Regiment in uniform From photographic negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery

Photograph shows identified soldier who was wounded Gaines' Mill, Virginia, and who wrote Taps as a variation on the earlier bugle call, Scott Tattoo.

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072)
Purchased from: Thomas Harris, New York, New York, December 2015.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
pp/liljpaper