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[Six Union soldiers labeled G.H.S., Capt. D Farr, Addison Brown, and Colonel Stoughton; two soldiers are unlabeled]

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[Six Union soldiers labeled G.H.S., Capt. D Farr, Addison Brown, and Colonel Stoughton; two soldiers are unlabeled]

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Photographs show portraits of three identified soldiers in uniforms: Captain Dennie W. Farr of Co. F and Co. C, 4th Vermont Infantry Regiment; Lieutenant Colonel Addison Brown of Co. F, 4th Vermont Infantry Regiment and Field and Staff, 5th Vermont Infantry Regiment; and Brigadier General Edwin Henry Stoughton of Field and Staff, 4th Vermont Infantry Regiment; also, three unidentified soldiers in uniforms.
In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], page 81.
Photographs probably by G. H. Houghton, photographer of other photographs in this album and fellow resident of Mead's in Brattleboro, Vermont. Houghton worked as a photographer at Camp Griffin and in the Tidewater area of Virginia during the time that Larkin Goldsmith Mead spent there with the Army of the Potomac as an artist for Harper's Weekly and making topographical drawings for Brig. Gen. William F. Smith in 1861 and 1862.

Digitized, 2014. Funding from The Center for Civil War Photography.
Accession box no. DLC/PP-1975:071

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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Date

01/01/1861
person

Contributors

Houghton, G. H. (George Harper), approximately 1824-1870, photographer
Mead, Larkin G. (Larkin Goldsmith), 1835-1910, collector
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Location

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Source

Library of Congress
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Public Domain

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