[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with musket, bayonet in scabbard, revolver, and cap box in front of painted backdrop showing military camp scene]
Summary
Photograph case has a campaign button with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln dated 1860 attached to interior.
Case: Berg, no. 3-156.
Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
Purchased from: Stone Mountain Relics, Inc., Stone Mountain, Georgia, 2002.
Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
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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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