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A sixth-plate ambrotype of John A. Tuttle of the “Hibriten Guards” of Company F, 26th Regiment North Carolina Troops, who was killed at Bristoe Station in October 1863.

Editor’s Desk (p. 1)
The editor introduces the tenth year of publication of Military Images, provides a hint of the content of upcoming issues, and discusses his effort to protect the “MonsterMaul” proposed at Manassas by returning his wife’s credit cards with a letter of explanation to the main retailers involved.

Mail Call (p. 3)
Letters of congratulations abound in this edition, with some readers providing bits of additional information about some past images, and with one reader providing a detailed explanation of why the publication resonates with her, such as the personal touches provided by vignettes, letters, and images that show the grit and resolve of the soldiers’ images.

Passing in Review (p. 4)
Six different publications are given rather short reviews; one is given longer treatment, beginning with Gettysburg Battlefield Commanders; A Photographic Guide by Blake Magner and Michael Cavanaugh. Although many people interested in the Civil War are aware of what the major commanders looked like, this book provides images of lesser-known and lower-ranking officers in a format this “illustrated organizational chart.” Catalogue of Civil War Photographers: a Listing of Civil War Photographer’s Imprints was compiled by George F. Witham; this first edition included over 1700 listings of photographers and the backmarks they used in their work organized by name and location. Following editions are anticipated as Witham had collected many more after publication. Next is the lengthier review of Joe Brown’s Army: the Georgia State Line, 1862-1865 by William Harris Bragg. He investigates the contradiction between centralized Confederate government as pursued by Jefferson Davis and the grip on individual states’ rights held by Georgia’s governor Joseph Brown. Bragg’s book tells the story of the military units organized to protect the railroad lines in northern Georgia, known as the Georgia State Line, which provides great detail about the men involved in the units involved. Next is Battle Cry of Freedom, the Civil War Era by James McPherson, which is part of a larger series of ten volumes. McPherson takes all the available assessments of the Civil War and provides insightful and original analysis that needs to be part of every Civil War enthusiast’s collection. Author Walter A. Clark originally wrote Under the Stars and Bars: Service with the Oglethorpe Infantry of Augusta, Georgia in 1900; this reprint is significant as this unit fought with the Army of the Tennessee, not the Army of Northern Virginia. The Civil War Campaign Medal was edited by John M. Carroll, describes the Congressional medal that was authorized in 1907, many years after the end of the war, which might explain why only 554 medals were issued after soldiers would apply. Finally, Custer and His Times: Book Three was edited by G.J.W. Urwin and Roberta Fagan who compiled fifteen articles by academics about Custer and his era, including an extensive bibliography of sources written between 1983 and 1985.

“Tha Kill So meny of us”: the 26th North Carolina Regiment at Gettysburg unit history by Greg Mast (pp. 5-11)
Beginning with a brief background of the 26th North Carolina covering its formation and eventual integration into the brigade of Henry Heth, the article traces the action that involved the regiment during the Battle of Gettysburg. The author uses excerpts from several soldier memoirs as well as nine images of members of the 26th (with short biographies), and one map illustrating the assault by Pettigrew and Brockenbrough on July 1. At the end of the day, the 26th North Carolina Regiment could only muster 216 men. The next day, the band of the regiment played to cheer the remaining soldiers, but on July 3, the 26th was led by Brigadier General J. Johnston Pettigrew as part of Pickett’s Charge. Three officers and 67 “muskets” returned.

The Blue Springs Images photo analysis by Scott Cross (pp. 12-15)
The author ties five different outdoor images showing scenes such as “Division of IV Corps, Blue Springs, Tenn.,” which shows the division of Grose’s Brigade set in order of battle, to a photographer named Sweeney from Cleveland, Tennessee, who was in that area in April, 1864. Images include Companies B and C of the 184th Illinois Infantry and the 9th and 36th Indiana.

The Marine Finds a Mate or, “Ain’t Love Grand” humor by John Stacey (pp. 16-17)
A series of postcards copyrighted in 1909 by Theodor Eismann of New York show the progression of a romance between a Marine and a young lady. Beginning with “The First-Meeting” and ending with “After the Ceremony,” the five cards shown are possibly only part of the tinted series printed in Germany. The cards were addressed to a Miss Ada Y. Miller by J.P.M., but were never mailed.

The Well-Accoutered Soldier: Army Uniforms of the Civil War, Part IX by Michael J. McAfee (pp. 18-24)
Twenty-one different images illustrate the accoutrements required by various types of soldiers in different roles as described in the introduction. Waist belts and shoulder belts that held the cartridge and cap boxes needed to fire weapons, bayonets, side arms, haversacks, knapsacks, and canteens were all among the equipment that frequently was not adequately imaged in total by photographers of the era, unless they happened to be near a camp. Officers had waist belts for their side arms and sabers. The images include the accoutrements required by musicians, including cavalry buglers, and other “quasi-military” groups. Each image includes a caption that highlights unique details and provides identification of the soldier or at least his unit.

History, Photography & the Civil War: a critical bibliography of books for buffs by Book Review Editor Philip Katcher (pp. 25-27)
From the advent of the daguerreotype in 1839, people have invested in having their images reproduced, usually for personal reasons. It was not until much later that the photograph in its many forms became to be considered an important form of primary documentation. When considering the Civil War image, having a reliable source to reference when trying to date or place an image is important for collectors, historians, and others. This article outlines and critiques the several essential volumes that those interested in Civil War photography should consider. Some are more specific (such as Cities Under the Gun: Images of Nashville and Chattanooga by James A. Hoobler) while others attempt to cover the entirety of the era (The Photographic History of the Civil War edited in volumes by Francis T. Miller). This comprehensive bibliography should assist readers in finding the best source of information to meet their needs.

Stragglers (pp. 29-30)
The first page of contributed images focuses on horses: one “riding” his cavalryman, while the other shows a National Guard officer mounted on his steed in about 1881 with his servant rides a donkey. Other images include a “Wide-Awake” boy, who campaigned for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 with a distinctive uniform consisting of rain cape, pole with whale oil lamp and flag, and a small kepi-type cap. Crowds appearing upon the news of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox are shown in a carte de visite by J.B. Hazelton of Montrose, Pennsylvania. One contributor asks for help in identifying garrison troops in his quarter-plate tintype that appears to be of the Civil War era, however the hats worn appear to be from the 1870s.

Back Image
Three different images are presented: two Philadelphians in an albumen print, two first lieutenants from about 1855 in a quarter-plate daguerreotype, and five men in a quarter-plate ruby ambrotype, some in uniform, some not, but all with cigars.

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The image of “Capt. Sam. J. Richardson” from the Independent Company of Texas Cavalry, complete with jaguar skin trousers with “conchos” (ball buttons) down the seams and matching holsters greets the reader of this issue of Military Images.

Editor’s Desk (p. 1)
The editor introduces the issue as the first “all Confederate” issue of the magazine, thanks to the many submissions of Rebel images by readers of MI. He also warns about another attempt to reduce the Manassas battlefield and encourages readers to contribute to the fund being raised to fight commercial encroachment of the battle site.

Mail Call (p. 3)
Letters to the editor include identifications of soldiers in images from past issues, including more information on Private Edwin F. Jemison, whose image is often used to embody the youth of the soldiery in the Civil War. The collection of images belonging to Michael McAfee in the previous issue is also lauded.

Passing in Review (pp. 4-5)
This issue features five reviews of new publications and alerts readers to recent reprints of older works they may be interested in acquiring. The first review is Forts Henry and Donelson: the Key to the Confederate Heartland by Benjamin Franklin Cooling. The author looks at the battles in their larger context of the whole war, critiques the first losses for the Confederacy as being due to lackluster generalship, and looks at the aftermath of the battles as well. Second is Gettysburg: The Second Day by Harry W. Pfanz. Lauded as a major work, the reviewer’s only complaint is that the book focuses only on the southern portion of the fighting under Longstreet and does not consider any of Ewell’s contributions. However the contribution to understanding of Gettysburg by this work is significant. Third is Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish Confederate by Eli N. Evans; while the reviewer admits that a biography of Benjamin is a difficult task as he destroyed much of the documentation of his work for the Confederacy and did not write or discuss the war afterwards, he also outlines a number of factual errors that make this biography less than complete. The fourth book reviewed is A Generation on the March: the Union Army at Gettysburg by Edmund J. Raus, who provides a profile of all Federal units, identification of corps, commanders, origin, strength and losses, and the location of the unit monument on the Gettysburg field. The last new publication is entitled Lee’s Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History by William Garrett Piston, who attempts to analyze how Longstreet’s image declined in the years following Lee’s death and why it is unlikely to be resurrected by scholarship. The two reprintings noted are Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson’s Raid Through Alabama and Georgia by James Pickett Jones (1976) and Confederate Navy Chief: Stephen R. Mallory by Joseph T. Durkin as part of the “Classics in Maritime History” series published by the University of South Carolina Press.

The Whole World was Full of Smoke: Letters of J.A. Byers, 17th Mississippi Infantry edited by Hartman McIntosh (pp. 6-11)
Born in Alabama, the soldier in the ambrotype is a handsome man with a bit of a blonde cowlick, and a prolific writer of letters, many of which are printed in this feature. Including one copy showing a cross-hatched letter (where paper was saved by writing over again at 90 degrees), Private John Alemeth Byers left for Virginia with his “Panola Vindicators” from Mississippi at the age of 25. The eleven letters he wrote as a member of Company H of the 17th Mississippi Infantry were written to Sister, Father, and Uncle, and trace his journey through the war from First Manassas (when he was too ill to fight), to Balls Bluff, to the Peninsula, where he starts requesting that the family send him Gilbert (a slave) to be a body servant for him. Wounded in the hand at Second Manassas, he writes again during the February after Fredericksburg, and tells the family that he and Gilbert are doing alright in the cold. The next letter is from a year after Gettysburg, where Byers took part in fighting with Barksdale’s Brigade in the Peach Orchard, being left behind severely wounded when the Confederates returned to Virginia; he was eventually sent home on furlough once returned to the Confederacy. He sees Gilbert at this time, who seems to be working on his own as a camp cook. The letters continue from around Petersburg and then on to the Shenandoah Valley, when Byers’ unit is moved in the fall of 1864. His letters provide an interesting glimpse into the life of a Confederate soldier, as he makes comments on people known to his family, requests specific types of clothing in almost each letter, and wishes for food from home as well as more letters. The last letter is from one of his commanding officers, Capt. Jesse C. Wright, who talks about “Almuth” as a valued member of the company and describes his death as quick; his belongings were to be forwarded with Gilbert as “soon as the opportunity presents itself.”

Rebels in Halifax: Rare Images of Confederates in Canada from the collection of Al Fleming (p. 12)
They are not identified, but the men posing before the second Confederate national flag had two cartes de visite with backmarks identifying them as being made by W. Chase in Halifax. They may be escaped prisoners of war or perhaps the St. Alban’s attackers? More information would need to be found to know for certain.

Vignette: Battery Guidon Bearer, Pvt. Louis Sherfesee, Hart’s South Carolina Artillery by John Bigham (pp. 13-14)
Not many guidon bearers, North or South, survived the entirety of the war, but the subject of this vignette is an exception. With the words “Hampton’s Legion” and “Washington Artillery” sewn on it, the banner that Private Sherfesee carried as well as his photographic image from June 1861 are presented along with a brief history of his Civil War record. He was part of Hart’s Battery and described being sent out to attract the fire of Federal troops at Freestone Point on the Potomac. When Hampton’s Legion was broken up, Sherfesee was with Hampton’s cavalry under J.E.B. Stuart; the damage to the guidon was sustained at the cavalry battle at Brandy Station in 1863. His service ended with the Battle of Bentonville in 1865.

Wounded & Captured at Gettysburg: An account by Sgt. William Jones, 50th Georgia Infantry edited by Keith Bohannon (p. 15)
The vignette begins with a description of the wounded soldier arriving at his home plantation, not being recognized by his own mother. Sgt. William Moore Jones was missing a leg and spent four months of incarceration by the Union at Point Lookout. The households of two plantations, his and his uncles, turn out to welcome him home, and after recounting his service at Second Manassas, South Mountain, Antietam, and Chancellorsville, the article begin with the soldier’s own words describing the action of Semmes’ brigade, probably fighting with Kershaw’s South Carolinians on the Second Day at Gettysburg. He describes his original wound, how he insisted on surgeons from his own regiment to be the ones to remove his foot, and the fact that he was captured when it was decided that his portion of the ambulance train on the way to Williamsport would not be able to sustain a crossing of the Potomac. His description of how the Union physician who eventually came to his assistance dealt with gangrenous wounds is horrific but spellbinding, and it was this one dedicated Union surgeon who saved his life. After his exchange, Sgt. Jones was hospitalized at Chimborazo in Richmond before making his way home, arriving in mid-April of 1864.

Soldiers of the Southland compiled by Daniel Brogan (pp. 16-27)
A total of forty different images of Confederates makes up this pictorial article, from a rare antebellum daguerreotype of a South Carolina firefighter to before-and-after-the-war images of the same Confederate officer. Coming from a number of different collectors, this compilation shows the wide variety of men and uniforms that represented the South in the Civil War. One soldier is identified as “E. Cunningham, May 1861, aged 14,” showing some of the youth involved in the war. Another image is of Florida Captain Robert Knickmeyr and his wife, presenting the impact the war had on families as well as the two ambrotypes of Louisiana brothers “Uncle Jimmy Harris” and “Uncle T. Harris” who were both identified as “brothers of Grandma Finley” in the inscription on the reverse. Many of the soldiers are identified, but just as many are not, leaving the reader to wonder about the fates of the men presented in these images.

Vignettes: Five Tarheels by Greg Mast (pp. 28-31)
Each of the images in this feature includes a brief biography of each soldier, only one of which appears to have survived the Civil War. Included are a quarter-plate ambrotype of Pvt. George Washington Lyon (killed July 1, 1863 at Gettysburg), a ninth-plate ambrotype of Pvt. James Wilkerson (killed at Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863), a sixth-plate ambrotype of Pvt. William T. Blanton (died of typhoid fever on June 30, 1862), a ninth-plate ambrotype of possibly Maberry Marvin Miller (paroled at Petersburg on June 26, 1865), and a carte de visite image of Pvt. Robert Jones (died of smallpox on October 20, 1863), the image of which may be a copy of a hard photographic image.

Back Image
A Rebel looks out from under his forage cap in a ninth-plate ambrotype found in Galveston, Texas.

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A half-plate ambrotype from the Guy DeMasi collection pictures Surg. William Swann of the 6^th Georgia Infantry.

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A carte de visite from the Thomas Harris collection pictures 2^nd Lt. Herman Tuerk of the 12^th Missouri Infantry (U.S.)

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Editor’s Desk (p. 2)
The editor thanks several key individuals who contributed to this special issue of medical-related images, and promotes Portraits in Gray: A Civil War Photography Exhibition featuring the images of MI Contributing Editor David W. Vaughan.

Medical Images of the Civil War Period by Dr. Gordon E. Dammann, D.D.S., F.I.C.D., F.A.C.D. (pp. 3-34)
Subtitled “A Leading Collector Reminisces About Collecting Medical Images,” the author explains how photographs were originally not big on his list to acquire and how that changed when he became interested in these “capsules of history.” He continues to discuss some of the most memorable images in his collection. What follows Dammann’s introduction is 116 photographs gleaned from the author’s collection and others. The images are grouped in the following categories: Surgeons (47 images), hospital stewards (14 images), medical facilities (10 images), women medical workers (8 images) and war casualties (37 images). Many of the portraits are identified.

The surgeons include Corp. Erastus Worthen of the 2^nd Vermont Infantry, Dr. Edward Revere of the 20^th Massachusetts Infantry, Maj. E. Burke Haywood, acting medical director of the Confederate Department of North Carolina, Surg. George Osborne of the 5^th Massachusetts Cavalry, Surg. John Wesley Hunt of the 10^th New York Infantry, Asst. Surg. John Morris of the 150^th Pennsylvania Infantry, Surg. David Dixon of an unknown Union regiment, Surg. Emil Gulich of the 9^th Illinois Infantry, Surg. James L. Dunn of the 109^th Pennsylvania Infantry, Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, Surg. William Randolph of the 17^th Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.), Surg. David Leroy of the 91^st Illinois Infantry, Surg. Henry F. Lyster of the 2^nd and 5^th Michigan infantries, Surg. Abraham Crispell of the 20^th New York State Militia, Surg. Edwin Bentley of the 1^st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, Surg. Charles Bower of the 6^th Pennsylvania Reserves, Asst. Surg. Myron Underwood of the 12^th Iowa Infantry, Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac Jonathan Letterman, Medical Purveyor of New York Maj. Richard Smith Satterlee, Asst. Surg. Richard Powell of the 88^th New York Infantry, Surg. Samuel R. Wooster of the 1^st Michigan Cavalry, Surg. Robert Hubbard of the 17^th Connecticut Infantry, Surg. Ferdinand Hayden, Chief Medical Officer of the Army of the Shenandoah, Surgeon and Medal of Honor recipient Gabriel Grant of the 2^nd New Jersey Infantry, Surg. Robert Smith of the 11^th Pennsylvania Infantry, Naval Surg. John J. Gibson of the Seminole, Asst. Surg. George Perkins of the 22^nd Massachusetts Infantry, A group portrait of field and staff officers of the 22^nd Massachusetts Infantry including Asst. Surg. George Perkins, Adj. Frederick Benson, Lt. Col. Thomas Sherwin, Quartermaster Harrison Royce, Surg. Isaac Stearns, Chap. Charles Tyler, Col. William Tilton and Maj. Mason Burt, Surg. James A. Armstrong of the 73^rd and 75^th Pennsylvania infantries, Asst. Surg. Prior N. Norton of the 20^th Kentucky Infantry, Surg. Horace Potter of the 105^th Illinois Infantry, Surg. James S. O’Donnell of Purnell’s Legion Maryland Infantry (U.S.), Surg. Stephen F. Elliott of the 4^th Battalion California Mountaineers, Surg. Matthew F. Price of the 1^st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Surg. Fidelio Gillette of the 9^th New Jersey Infantry, Asst. Surg. Henry C. Barrell of the 27^th and 38^th Illinois infantries, Surg. Thomas M. Flandrau of the 146^th New York Infantry, Asst. Surg. Edward C. Franklin of the 2^nd Rhode Island Infantry, Surg. Francis Pillichody of the 74^th Pennsylvania Infantry, Surg. Horace Gates of the 31^st Iowa Infantry, and Surg. Walter Burnham of the 6^th Massachusetts Infantry.

Identified hospital stewards include Elisha Post of the 66^th Ohio Infantry, David Knowles of the 1^st Connecticut Cavalry, Charles L. Barnes of the 15^th Connecticut Infantry, Amasa D. Ward of the 38^th Massachusetts Infantry, Arthur W. Cox of the 19^th Massachusetts Infantry, Lewis Sager of an unidentified regiment, Arand (Aaron) VanderVeen of the 8^th Michigan Infantry, Algernon Marble Squier of the 9^th Vermont Infantry, Frank P. Davis of an unidentified regiment, William Henry Harrison Prime of the 23^rd Massachusetts Infantry, Peter Paul Fuchs of the 99^th Pennsylvania Infantry and Lorenzo Higgins of the 67^th U.S. Colored Infantry.

Identified medical facilities include the hospital at Fort Columbus in New York Harbor, Union Brigade Hospital at Dalton, Ga., U.S. General Hospital No. 4 in Nashville, Tenn., Barracks at Baton Rouge, La., medical staff of Lincoln U.S. Military Hospital in Washington, D.C., Officer’s U.S. Military Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., Adams U.S. Military Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., U.S. General Hospital #3, “Klein House,” at Vicksburg, Miss., “Harvey Hospital” or U.S. General Hospital in Madison, Wis. and a federal hospital in Beaufort, S.C.

Identified women medical workers include Medal of Honor recipient Dr. Mary Walker and Mary Ashton Livermore of the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

Identified war casualties include John W. Shelow of the 110^th Pennsylvania Infantry, Jacob Johnson of the 12^th Louisiana Infantry, Frederick A. Bartleson of the 100^th Illinois Infantry, Capt. Albert Gallatin Lawrence of the staff of Gen. Adelbert Ames, Levi Hutchens of the 1^st Confederate Infantry, Roger Bellis of the 1^st Potomac Home Brigade Maryland Infantry (U.S.), Dennis Mehan of the 2^nd Massachusetts Infantry, Capt. Isaac Shelby of the 28^th Mississippi Cavalry, Robert Avery of the 102^nd New York Infantry, a companion image of Avery with Joseph Goodman of the 147^th Pennsylvania Infantry and Charles T. Greene of the 12^th Corps, Alfred C. Lindsey of the 136^th Pennsylvania Infantry, James W. Jackson of the 22^nd Michigan Infantry, Samuel Affolter of the 176^th New York Infantry, Patrick Henry Lennon of the 42^nd New York Infantry, Daniel Alton of the 27^th Indiana Infantry, Wesley Coffey of the 14^th Indiana Infantry, Edward S. Dewey of the 57^th Massachusetts Infantry, Sidney M. Ballard of the 39^th North Carolina Infantry, William Moody of the 139^th Pennsylvania Infantry, Frederick R. Cutler of the 72^nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Doctor Bunnell’s makeshift embalming facility, Thomas Nugent of the 27^th Indiana Infantry and John Nelson of the 18^th Pennsylvania Cavalry.

Featured Images (p. 35)
Details of the photographs featured on the front cover, inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover.

How Our Great-Grand Father Met the Famous Physician-Photographer Named Reed Bontecou by Ted Karle (pp. 36-37)
The author tells stories from his family’s oral traditions about his forefather Peter Karle of the 83^rd Pennsylvania Infantry, and then shares his findings of what really happened. This led to the discovery that Karle had suffered a hernia and been hospitalized in Harewood Hospital in Washington, D.C. There he met Surg. Reed Bontecou, well known for photographing his patients. Karle is not exception—he was photographed in the buff.

Union Hospital Stewards by Steven Karnes (pp. 38-39)
A brief explanation of the role and responsibilities of hospital steward is illustrated with 10 cartes de visite from the author’s collection.

Operation at Fortress Monroe by Dr. Paul R. Johnson MD (pp. 40-41)
A photographic analysis documents three steroview photographs related to the 5^th New York Infantry (Duryee’s Zouaves) at Fortress Monroe, Va., in 1861. Two of the images show the surgeon of the regiment, Rufus Gilbert, and his assistant surgeon, B. Ellis Martin, performing an amputation. The third image is a view of the regiment’s staff that includes Gilbert and Martin.

Specimen Soldiers by Mark H. Dunkelman (pp. 42-44)
Subtitled “Medical Specimens of Three 154^th New York Infantry Soldiers Tell a Grim Story,” the author tells the stories behind bone fragments at the U.S. Army Medical Museum, which became today’s National Museum of Health and Medicine. The bones belonged to Cpl. Jerome Averill of Company K, Pvt. Michael Walsh of Company I and Oscar F. Wilber of Company G.

Uniforms & History by Michael J. McAfee (pp. 45-46)
In “The Reverend Doctor Gordon Winslow,” McAfee explains that the theme of the issue prompted him to move away from the usual format to share Winslow’s story. As chaplain of the 5^th New York Infantry (Duryee’s Zouaves), Winslow saw much of the war. In 1863 he left the regiment to become Sanitary Inspector of the Army of the Potomac under the auspices if the United States Sanitary Commission. Illustrations include four cartes de visite of Winslow and a carte de visite of his son, Cleveland Winslow, pictured as colonel of the 5^th.

Sutler’s Row (p. 47)

The Last Shot (p. 48)
A carte de visite from the collection of Dr. Paul R. Johnson pictures Lt. Thomas W. Chandler of the 65^th New York Infantry. The profile view of the lieutenant shows the prominent scar across his temple, the result of a bullet wound received in battle at Fort Fisher, Va., also known as Jones’s Farm, on March 25, 1865.

Inside Back Cover
A carte de visite from the Gordon Dammann collection pictures an unidentified Confederate surgeon.

Back Cover
A carte de visite from the Henry Deeks collection pictures the amputated right leg of Pvt. George T. Skilton of the 36^th Wisconsin Infantry.

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The cover of this issue of Military Images features five separate images from the collection of Michael J. McAfee. These include a member of the 146th New York Volunteer Infantry with its distinctive uniform, a member from the 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry, a ship’s boy with his mascot, an unidentified Rhode Islander, and a New York Zouave.

Editor’s Desk (p. 1)
The editor lets the readership know that the Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Military Park is looking for images to be included in a mural entitled “Wall of Faces.” He also lets the readers know that the lawsuit Katz v. Gladstone that stemmed from a book review in “Passing in Review,” Vol. VII, No. 2 was settled as being without merit. The format of this special issue is introduced, and the editor lets the readers know that more Confederate images are on the way in future issues.

Mail Call (p. 2)
Letters to the editor include a detailed drawing and description of a Minie ball medal similar to the “Massachusetts Mystery Medal” and the identification of an assumed foreign musket in “Stragglers” as an American model. There were also identifications of two Vermonters and a correction of the name of the drummer boy killed at Antietam (Charles E. King). One letter provided a rationale for why an image may show A.P. Hill in a naval type uniform in 1858.

Interview with Mike McAfee (pp. 3-4)
Beginning with a general interest as a child in things military to happening to find a job at the West Point Museum, the interview discusses how McAfee got interested in the collection of images. As he also works professionally as a museum curator, he has some advice for collectors who are looking for images now as opposed to when he began collecting in the 1960s. For example, he has very few if any Confederates in his collection as they have become rare and expensive, so he has focused more on Federal images. He also collects more general images as opposed to specific subjects and highly suggests protecting these “little bits of history” by using archival sleeves. While the images in this issue of MI are not necessarily his best, McAfee has provide a wide range of images for the enjoyment of the readership.

Pre-War Images (pp. 5-7)
Four stereographic images, including an enlargement of one showing mounted New York Hussars in a parade begin this section of Mike McAfee’s collection of images. These outdoor scenes include the North Dock at West Point and a militia picnic. The ambrotypes included in this section include a member of a New York drill company, a militiaman who did not eventually serve in the Civil War, a New York militiaman wearing the regulation 1858 uniform and two militiamen in the Continental uniforms worn by some militia of the antebellum era.

The First Volunteers (pp. 8-11)
Twenty images from McAfee’s collection show the different uniforms worn by those who were among the first to volunteer in the Civil War. This would include an image of the large blouse worn by Rhode Island light artillery units and the uniforms of the Collis and Rush Hawkins Zouave regiments. Many of the image subjects are identified, such as Brigadier General Benjamin Butler in the uniform of the Massachusetts militia unit he led. Another carte de visite from the collection is of Francis Brownell of the 11th New York (the “Ellsworth Zouaves”), who avenged the death of Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth in Virginia in 1861.

Camp Life (pp. 12-15)
Many of the fourteen images presented in this section of the issue are a combination of stereographs and cartes de visite that show the defenses outside of Washington, at Harper’s Ferry, and other camp sites. A few show different leaders outside of their own personal camps, such as the 1861 images of Captain Thomas Francis Meagher and Colonel Adolph von Steinwehr prior to Bull Run. The formal and informal posing of these images provide a glimpse into the early years of a Civil War camp.

The Troops (pp. 16-20)
Twenty-four different images from the famous young drummer boy John Clem (who retired as a Brigadier General in 1916) to the bugler from the 1st New York Cavalry show something of the life of the Civil War enlisted man. There are variations in uniform, weaponry, types of service, and state of origin as well as in format of the images themselves.

The Officers (pp. 21-24)
All but one of the twenty officers presented in this collection of cartes de visite also show many different variations, from the lieutenant wearing all of his gear for his portrait and the cavalryman wearing Mexican spurs, to the clergyman wearing his simple black frock coat that typified his vocation. Two images are of European aristocracy, one of whom returned to his home country of Sweden once his service in the Federal army was at an end. Some of the officers survived, but some did not, as indicated in the image captions.

Stragglers (pp. 25-28)
A number of unidentified soldiers are among the “Stragglers” with some wearing identifiable uniforms while others are completely unknown. One image is of a chasseur from the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry, so identified on the back of the image by noted Civil War artist A.R. Waud. A few of the men, such as Hospital Steward George H. Thompson are unique images that do not easily fall into a category. Any information regarding these men would be appreciated by Mike McAfee.

Passing in Review (pp. 29-31)
Ten different publications are included in this issue, with many of them being concise and to-the-point. First is a review of Brief History of the 30th Georgia Regiment by Augustus Adamson, an exact reprint of the 1912 publication of the same title. It includes some biographical information written later in their lives. Next is The Heavens Are Weeping: The Diaries of George R. Browder 1852-1866 edited by Richard Troutman. The reviewer warns that the cover of the book, which features the battleflag of the Army of Northern Virginia and two Union soldiers, is misleading as very little of the diary entries have anything to do with the Civil War directly. That being said, it does provide some insight into everyday life of the era. Third is Cities Under the Gun by James A Hoobler, and provides readers with images of Chattanooga and Nashville, Tennessee. The book makes some “then and now” comparisons and includes Corps of Engineers drawings or blueprints of some buildings. Similarly, Portraits of Conflict: a Photo History of Arkansas in the Civil War by Bobby Roberts and Carl Moneyhon provide a detailed regional history of the war in Arkansas, with many previously unpublished images. Confederate General Service Accoutrement Plates by Lon W. Keim, M.D. is an excellent volume for those collectors who would appreciate the detailed images and information about plates and buckles worn by Confederates, including some images of soldiers wearing the items. The next item for review is a film entitled The Civil War Soldier: The Infantryman, written and directed by Steve Tilson. A 24-minute videotape, it is an attempt to capture some of the work of living historians in VCR format, and provides basic background on Federal and Confederate soldiers; the reviewer provides some suggestions for future improvement to this relatively new way of imparting this kind of information. The Drums Would Roll by Thomas C. Railsback and John P. Langellier is an attempt to provide a pictorial history of U.S. Army bands on the frontier. The reviewer suggests that more attention to the selection and presentation of the images would greatly improve this work. Next is Illustrations of U.S. Military Arms 1776-1903 and Their Inspector’s Marks is a reproduction of the 1949 Bannerman’s Catalog and provides information relevant to arms collectors. The Art of Warfare in the Western World by Archer Jones begins with the Greeks and moves up to modern times, outlining the evolution of weapons systems, focusing on heavy and light infantry and heavy and light cavalry as well as a small section on naval development. A major work, the reviewer feels it is a significant research tool, although the treatment on the Civil War is brief and focuses on transportation methods. Finally, is Peter Newark’s work Sabre & Lance: An Illustrated History of Cavalry which the reviewer feels falls far short of the mark the title implies.

Back Image
Five additional images from the McAfee collection are included on the back cover as well. This includes a woman who may be a vivandiere, a Zouave, an unidentified soldier, and two unidentified couples.

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A carte de visite of A.P. Stafford, 1^st Alabama Infantry, from the John Sickles collection. His story appears on page 38.

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Editor’s Desk (p. 2)
The editor explains that an unfortunate delay caused by a computer crash caused the issue to be delayed. He thanks supporters and sends best wishes for the New Year.

Passing in Review (p. 3)
Two books receive favorable reviews. Union Army Colonels of the Civil War: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia (Stackpole Books) by Roger Hunt is the third volume in the Colonels in Blue series. Confederate Uniforms at Gettysburg (C.W. Historicals) by Michael J. Winey follows his 1998 book, Union Army Uniforms at Gettysburg.

Civil War Images from the collection of Steven Karnes (pp. 4-19)
Steven Karnes purchased his first image at a flea market in 1999 and collects hard images and cartes de visite. A total of 19 representative images from his collection are included here. All are Union soldiers, and several are identified: Pvt. William Davenport of the 52^nd Illinois Infantry, Pvt. Charles Rodd of the 128^th Ohio Infantry, Pvt. Sylvester Strong of the 20^th Wisconsin Infantry, Lt. William D. Burkholder of the 7^th Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry and Pvt. William H. Peiffer of the 95^th Pennsylvania Infantry.

“My Lot to Fall:” The Life and Death of Major Jacob Babbitt by Robert Grandchamp (pp. 20-23)
Babbitt, major of the 10^th Rhode Island Infantry, was mortally wounded at Marye’s Heights during the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862. The author details his life and military service, illustrated with pre-war and wartime views of Babbitt, a post-war Grand Army of the Republic ribbon and a postcard of the G.A.R. post hall named in his honor.

More Civil War Musicians from the collection of Donald Bates Sr. (pp. 24-27)
Two horn players and two drummers, all Union musicians, compose this images survey. One man is identified: Jonathan Greenwood of the 33^rd New York Infantry.

The Greene Brothers Civil War by Sebastian Nelson (pp. 28-33)
Subtitled “Five Patriotic Rhode Islanders Fight to Preserve the Union,” the author provides vignettes of brothers: Daniel H. Greene of the 4^th Rhode Island Infantry, Edward Whipple Greene of the 1^st Rhode Island and 29^th Massachusetts infantries, Dr. Jerome Bonaparte Greene of the 1^st New York Artillery and the 5^th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Dr. Willard Hendrick Greene of the 12^th Rhode Island Infantry and Henry Atwell Greene of the 1^st California and 2^nd U.S. infantries. A group portrait of the brothers illustrates the text.

The Confederate Soldier (p. 34)
A sixth-plate ambrotype from the J. Dale West collection pictures Pvt. Amasa V. Going of the 12^th Louisiana Infantry.

Uniforms & History by Michael J. McAfee (pp. 35-37)
In “Independent Company of Cadets, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry ‘Boston Cadets,’” McAfee recognizes the 200-year military history of the organization as “an example of the American militia tradition.” He goes on to trace their history and describe their uniforms, illustrated with four carte de visite portraits: Frederic Dexter, Henry L. Pierce, John A. Burnham Jr. and John W.M. Appleton.

Front and Back cover stories (p. 38)
Details of the lives and military service of subjects A.P. Safford and Francis C. Barlow.

Sutler’s Row (p. 39)

The Last Shot (p. 40)
Pvt. Joseph A. Trowbridge of the Eighth Company, New York State Militia, dressed in winter gear at Camp Cameron in Washington, D.C., on our about May 20, 1861.

Back Cover
Salt print from the Ken Turner collection of future Union Gen. Francis C. Barlow, as he looked upon his graduation from Harvard in 1855.

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An original color-tinted sixth-plate ruby ambrotype of Lt. John R. Emerson, who served in Company E of the 26^th North Carolina, from the collection of Charles Joyce. His story appears on pages 36-38.
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Table of Contents (p. 1)
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Editor’s Desk (p. 2)
The editor reflects on the enduring legacy of the Battle of Gettysburg. He introduces the cover story, a gallery of portraits of Union and Confederate soldiers who were killed, wounded or captured during the three-day engagement.
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Mail Call (p. 3)
Feedback includes an anecdote about 6,000 Dead Letter Office ambrotypes, praise for Richard A. Wolfe’s “Custer’s West Virginia Red Ties,” the identification of a Massachusetts soldier pictured in the Spring 2016 issue, and thoughts about the Jefferson and Varina Davis tintypes, truth and understanding.
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Passing in Review (p. 4)
Distinctive Union soldier portraits are the stars of the show in a self-published book of highlights of one man’s 30-year journey as a Civil War photo collector. In The Union Soldier: Images of the Civil War, Bruce Bonfield brings together 170 selected photographs from his personal holdings.
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The Honored Few (p. 5)
At the Battle of Gettysburg, Col. Wheelock Graves Veazey of the 16^th Vermont Infantry led a bold counterattack against advancing Confederate troops during Pickett’s Charge. The Vermonters was successful. In 1891, Veazey was recognized with the Medal of Honor for his courage on the battlefield.

Photo Sleuth by Kurt Luther (pp. 7-8)
What is the value of a photo inscription as an identification tool? Author Kurt Luther shares how the post-war writing taped to the back of a tintype helped solve one photo mystery—and introduce another.

Finding My Great-Grandfather by Mark H. Dunkelman (pp. 9-10)
It’s the dream of Civil War students with an ancestor who fought for the Blue or Gray—finding an original wartime portrait of their soldier. And when it happened to Mark Dunkelman, whose great-grandfather fought with the 154^th New York Infantry, it was one of the most fantastic finds he had ever had in six decades of researching the regiment.

Cardomania! How the Carte de Visite Became the Facebook of the 1860s by Ronald S. Coddington (pp. 12-17)
The carte de visite format is a blip on the timeline of photographic history, wedged between the beauty of the daguerreotype and the technical improvements later in the 19^th century. But during its heyday in the 1860s, cartes de visite affordability, reproducibility and share-ability made it a social media powerhouse.

Jefferson Davis, Political Soldier by John O’Brien (pp. 18-19)
In early 1861, Jefferson Davis served as major general in command of Mississippi’s army. The stint lasted only a few weeks until he was inaugurated president of the Confederate nation. During this brief period, curious Northerners wanted to see a portrait of Davis in uniform. New York photographer Charles Fredricks made it happen with a bit of photo trickery.

Antebellum Warriors (p.20)
A daguerreotype of a pre-Civil War militiaman wearing chevrons and epaulettes on his uniform seems confusing. Is he a commissioned or non-commissioned officer? The answer may be a surprise.

Honored Dead, Haunted Survivors introduced by Harold Holzer (pp. 21-35)
They fell in the thousands during three brutal days of carnage in a crossroads community in southeast Pennsylvania. The ground hallowed by their blood—Little Round Top and Culp’s Hill and The Wheatfield—are forever part of our American memory. A small yet significant group of the men who were killed, wounded or captured are remembered here in portraits and personal stories.

Final Harvest: The Last Journey of a Confederate Lieutenant Wounded and Captured at Pickett’s Charge by Charles Joyce (pp. 36-38)
Lt. John R. Emerson and his comrades in the 26^th North Carolina Infantry marched into the hail of fire at Pickett’s Charge and like so many of the regiments were decimated in the assault. For Emerson and so many others who were shot and captured by the enemy, the day marked the beginning of a journey from which many never returned.

A Gallant Son of Orange Falls at Gettysburg by Ronald S. Coddington (pp. 40-43)
The body of Capt. Isaac Nicoll of the 124^th New York Infantry was lined up with other dead after Georgia Confederates took position of part of Houck’s Ridge on the afternoon of July 2. One of the Georgians picked a Bible out of Nicoll’s pocket. The Testament’s journey from its late owner to his father in New York is the stuff of legend.

Return and Retreat at Gettysburg: A Seminarian Is Called to Arms to Defend His College Town by Paul Russinoff (pp. 44-46)
Frederick Klinefelter, like many college students during the war, suspended their studies to enlist in the army. Klinefelter’s circumstances are however unusual, for he had attended Gettysburg College and was a student at the Lutheran Theological Seminary when Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Confederates invaded the North. The young seminarian joined many of his fellow students to repel the invaders, and went down in history as among the first to fight at Gettysburg.

Immortality on Little Round Top, Butchery in Saunders Field by Kevin Canberg (pp. 48-50)
Two officers who served in the 140^th New York Infantry, Capt. Henry Belding Hoyt and Lt. Joseph H. Pool, served with distinction in the fighting at Gettysburg. But less than a year later in The Wilderness, they would face some of the toughest fighting of the war. Both men would pay a price in the fighting at Saunders Field, a place where the glory of Gettysburg had no value.

Conspicuous Cadet at New Market: The life and legacy of VMI’s Jonathan E. Woodbridge by Katie O’Halloran Brown (pp. 51-53)
Late on the night of May 10, 1864, the cadets of Virginia Military Institute were called out of bed for orders that directed them to join Confederate forces at Staunton, Va. Despite the late hour, “the air was rent with wild cheering,” as the men broke from ranks, excited at the prospect of finally having a hand in the conflict. Among the cadets was 20-year-old Richmond native Jonathan Edwards Woodbridge. His story is representative of the young men who stepped up when their country called upon them.

At Gettysburg, Life Imitates Art by Ronald S. Coddington (pp. 54-55)
The story of Amos Humiston of the 154^th New York Infantry, found dead on the Gettysburg battlefield clutching an ambrotype of his three children, is one of the war’s most poignant stories. And yet an eerily similar poem written a year before Humiston’s death is forgotten.

Highly Honorable and Strictly Confidential Service by Scott Valentine (pp. 56-58)
Ohio farm boy Smith Stimmel knew when he enlisted in the 7th Independent Company of Ohio Volunteer Cavalry that he was slated for unusual duty. He could not have known that he would soon by a guard at the White House and come to hold the president who lived there in the highest regard.

Uniforms & History by Michael J. McAfee (p. 59)
In “Gettysburg’s Damned Black-Hats and Other Distinctive Fellers,” Mike introduces readers to some of the more unique uniforms worn by federals at the time of the Gettysburg Campaign.

Butterflies and Battle Scars (pp. 60-64)
An exclusive gallery of selected photographs adapted from The Union Soldier: Images of the Civil War. The book, by Bruce Bonfield, is discussed in Passing in Review.

Stragglers: Distinctive Images from MI contributors (pp. 66-70)
Included in this issue is a Georgia Confederate from the studio of respected Charleston, S.C. photographer George S. Cook, and a reenactment of Union soldiers apprehending three men, one of which appears to be holding Greek Fire.

Sutler’s Row (p. 71)

The Last Shot (p. 72)
Collector Rick Brown shares a sixth-plate ambrotype of an unidentified member of the 2^nd U.S. Sharpshooters, a crack regiment commanded by Col. Hiram Berdan.

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A sixth-plate tintype shows an unidentified soldier from the 2nd Vermont Volunteer Infantry.

Editor’s Desk (p. 1)
The editor responds to readers requesting more Confederate images. He explains that it is not due to a Federal bias, but basic economics. There were far more photographers available to soldiers from the North than from the South and Federal soldiers were more financially able to purchase their images than were their Confederate counterparts. Military Images strives to include at least one feature on a Confederate topic per issue and would like to increase that number. It takes readers willing to write the articles to make that happen.

Mail Call (p. 3)
A few letters are included in this issue, including one that shows fake “Kearney Cross” (sic) medals sold by the B.T. Hayward Co. A notice from the editor is included to let the readership know that the Taney Farm Bill had indeed been signed by President Reagan, preserving an important part of the Gettysburg Battlefield. Another reader writes to ask if an image of an officer from a previous issue of MI is the same man (Lt. Col. J.W. Lyman) in a carte de visite from the collection of Ronn Palm.

Passing in Review (p. 5)
This issue presents five different publications for review. The first is The Divided Union by Peter Batty and Peter Parish. This volume is a companion publication to the BBC production of the same name that had been shown on the A&E channel. The text focuses more on political and civilian issues than on battlefield descriptions and some of the images are not presented as accurately as they could have been, but it is an overall nice publication. Next is Photographic Collections in Texas by Richard Pearce-Moses, who provides a comprehensive overview of all of the public collections that are open to research in Texas, an important source for those interested in viewing what is available there. Soldiers, Sutlers, and Settlers: Garrison Life on the Texas Frontier by Robert Wooster describes the conditions and concerns of the people who settled Texas and built a society there. The major problem with the book is that the images provided are not captioned, which may lead the reader to misinterpret them or put them into the wrong context. The Confederate Image by Mark E. Neely, Jr., Harold Holzer, and Gabor S. Boritt was produced as part of a traveling show of Confederate prints (not photographs). It attempts to show that the lack of prints such as those created by Currier and Ives and Harper’s Weekly in the North led to a lack of a common frame of reference that united the South both during and after the war. Last to be discussed is Lincoln’s Dreams by Connie Willis, a work of fiction that involves the dreams of researchers, one of whom has rather accurate dreams of the Civil War. The work includes Civil War characters such as Lincoln and son Willie, Lee and daughter Annie, and makes for an interesting if not completely accurate read.

A Norwegian in Blue: Letters of Iver Torkelson, 15th Wisconsin edited by Anthony B. Torkelson (pp. 6-13)
This series of translated letters edited by the author’s great-grandson. They trace the Civil War journey of Sgt. Iver Torkelson, part of the “Scandinavian Regiment” which was composed of soldiers who did not have a good command of the English language. Indeed one of the notes by the editor of the article states that many of the Norwegians stationed at Island No. 10 died of disease as their reluctance to show their inability to speak English made them hesitant to go for medical care. For a while, Torkelson worked with a saw mill; two of his letters describe problems they were having which allowed him time to write to his family. He was concerned about letters and pay getting back home to Wisconsin; he cites two instances of mail being stolen (once by John Morgan’s guerillas) and one instance where rebels stole about $20,000 from the express service that took pay home. The letters describe the surrounding countryside from his travels in detail, but do not discuss the fighting; his unit participated at Perryville, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga, although Torkelson missed some of this, having come down with typhoid fever and then being reassigned to the Invalid Corps in late 1863. The last letter, from 1876, is to a friend from his Army days, describing the adventure he had tracking thieves who had stolen his horses. There are also images throughout, such as the one showing new recruits with both American and Norwegian flags flying.

Faithful to the End: Letters of Lt. William Boswell, 35th Georgia edited by Terry Lynn Anderson (pp. 14-15)
A few letters survive from this educated Georgia farmer, who left for the war led by his brother-in-law, fighting for the “liberties, the home, the all-in-the-world” of his wife and two children. Boswell was a religious man, as the partial letter and the short letter to his mother reveal. The touching letter to his wife, Missouria, was in between engagements at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; in all, Boswell saw other action at the Wilderness, Mine Run, and Anna River and was wounded three times.

A Distant Drummer: Images in the Collection of Frederick Fabel (pp. 16-21)
Twenty images of drummers grace this pictorial article, with drummers of all ages and showing all kinds of different drums. The author of the article is also a drummer, and began his collection of drumming images in 1983. The drummer was a familiar and necessary figure in Civil War regiments, sounding when it was time to get up, time to eat, and to keep time on the march. The author requests that if anyone can identify the images more precisely, to please contact him.

Vignette: James Buckner, Marine by David M. Sullivan (pp. 22-24)
It is not often that one hears about a person who is three feet, eight inches joining the U.S. Marine Corps, but in 1837, such was the case for James Buckner; he was just seven years old and enlisting as a musician. Fifer Buckner saw much in his Marine career, including the initial cruises of at least two experimental vessels, wartime service in both the Mexican and U.S. Civil Wars, and periods where he was unable to serve due to ill health. Most of his Civil War service was spent on the Mohaska. The vignette includes two images of the life-long Marine during that era of his service.

In the Nick of Time: The Ohio National Guard to the Rescue by Chris Nelson (p. 25)
This vignette details the events experienced during a 100 day enlistment of the 147th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, made up of mostly Ohio National Guardsmen. Elihu Pearson was a member of that group, which was called to the defense of Washington in May 1864. Pearson took part in the defense of Fort Reno during Jubal Early’s Confederate attack through Maryland, and then Fort Stevens, with President Lincoln present in the fort at the time. Pearson also got into a bit of a fix when he was found to have removed his “accoutrements” without permission, but this did not seem to cause him any undue trouble. A carte de visit image of Private Pearson with his wife, Eliza Jane, round out the article.

Ein Grün Berg Deutscher: A German officer in the 3rd Vermont by Wendell W. Lang, Jr. (pp. 26-27)
The recent discovery of an identification disk on the banks of the Rapidan River in Virginia led to this vignette, which describes the career of Johann Friedrich Koch, who took the name of John F. Cook upon his arrival in the U.S. from Saxony as a child. His identification badge shows him as a participant in the “War of 1861” in which he was enlisted as a private in July of that year. Cook eventually rose to the rank of Major after fighting in some battles such as the Peninsula, Antietam, and the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania Court House and being wounded twice.

Stragglers (pp. 29-31)
Three different images of soldiers from the collection of Robert Kotchian include a soldier with an imported Liege rifle on a ninth-plate sized image, a quarter-plate image of an outdoor backdrop with many different relics included, and carte de visite of a sailor with a painting of the Monitor on the background. The large image on the last two pages is of “Haley’s Coronet Band” from Lexington, Kentucky. Taken towards the end of the Civil War, readers are asked if they know of any additional details about the unit posed in the large albumen print.

Back Image
A cabinet card showing a man displaying two popular board games: “The Blue and the Gray” and “The Four Rival Lovers.”

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A company of U.S. soldiers in camp at Chickamauga, Ga., stand with their commander in an albumen print about the time of the Spanish-American War.

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Editor’s Desk and Mail Call (p. 2)
New editor David Neville thanks outgoing editor Philip Katcher for the opportunity to lead the magazine into its next chapter. “MI has always been more than a ‘picture magazine,’ publishing the best in both military photography and historic scholarship. And so MI will continue.”

Passing in Review (pp. 4-5)
Capsule summaries of seven volumes include Masters of the Shoals by Jim McNeil, Sacrifice at Vicksburg: Letters from the Front by Susan T. Puck, Blue & Gray at Sea edited by Brian M. Thomsen, The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle by Allan C. Richards Jr. and Mary Margaret Higginbotham Richard, Rebel Reefers: The Organization and Midshipmen of the Confederate States Naval Academy by James Lee Conrad, “For Fatigue Purposes…” The Army Sack Coat of 1857-1872 by Patrick Brown and These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory by Thomas A. Desjardin.

Warriors of 1863 (pp. 6-7)
A brief summary of the Battle of Chickamauga is illustrated by nine images, including Brig. Gen. John H. King and two other officers mounted on their horses, Capt. William W. Helm of the Confederate 3^rd Kentucky Cavalry, Pvt. James Thomas of the 57^th Indiana Infantry, an unidentified private from the 15^th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Corp. Melvin A. Hurd of the 74^th Indiana Infantry, 1^st Sgt. Henry Fritz of the Confederate 2^nd Kentucky Cavalry, Col. Newell Gleason of the 87^th Indiana Infantry and a portrait of an unidentified soldier taken by photographers Schwing & Rudd, Army of the Cumberland.

Bluecoats Return to Chickamauga by David A. Norris (pp. 8-9)
A profile of Camp Thomas in Chickamauga, Ga., which was established in 1898 as a training facility for troops during the Spanish American War. About 69,161 volunteers and over 7,283 regulars were eventually housed there. Two stereoview images illustrate the text.

Chickamauga in World War One by David A. Norris (p. 10)
Fort Oglethorpe, establish in 1904, brought a flood of troops to Chickamauga, which was National Military Park land. The camp operated until 1947. Images of camp buildings are featured, all photographed by army Surg. Philip A. Sheaff, who is also pictured.

The New York State Jacket by Philip Katcher (pp. 11-15)
The author notes that, “The stylish, distinctive and comfortable New York State issue jacket was popular with the troops. It was even worn by troops from at least one other state.” A total of 10 images are featured, and one is identified—Pvt. George Aker of the 44^th New York Infantry.

3 Members of the 4^th Tennessee Cavalry by John Sickles (p. 16)
Mini-biographies of Maj. Baxter Smith, Campbell Craig and Pvt. E.M. Brown are presented along with portrait photos of each soldier.

More Boys of the 48^th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry by James Jezorski (pp. 17-18)
Eight unidentified portraits of men who served in Company G of the regiment are featured. According to the author, the “old collector” from whom he purchased the images said that the individual from whom he bought them personally took them off the wall of a Grand Army of the Republic Hall in Hershey, Pa.

A Night of Terror by Thomas P. Lowry (pp. 19-20)
The author documents brutal crimes committed by members of the 14^th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored). The story is illustrated with portraits of two of the regiment’s officers, Maj. Joseph J. Comstock Jr. and Capt. Joshua M. Addeman.

The Mystery Photographer by Michael K. Sorenson (pp. 21-22)
Five portraits of men who served in the famed “California Hundred” of the 2^nd Massachusetts Infantry pose with a elaborately patterned drape. A sixth man from the 44^th Massachusetts Infantry also poses with the drape. The name of the photographer is a mystery. Four of the men from the 2^nd are identified: Capt. Charles S. Eigenbrodt, 1^st Sgt. Robert H. Williams, Pvt. Jacob Walther and Pct. Joseph H. Burke. The soldier who served in the 44^th is Pvt. Isaac Carry.

U.S. Cavalry, 1898, Stereos (pp. 23-26)
Mounted Cavalry did not play a major role in the campaigns of the Spanish-American War, but stereo photographers found images of them great sellers to the public. A survey of 8 stereoviews is included from the collections of Ron Da Silva and Philip Katcher.

The Passing of A.J. Krohn by Jerry Harlowe (pp. 27-29)
August John Krohn, a sailor who served on the Wilmington, died of typhoid fever in 1901. His remains were buried in the English Cemetery. Despite photographic evidence of his grave, the site has disappeared and its whereabouts remain a mystery.

More of Bell’s Boys by Richard F. Carlile (p. 30)
Four privates in the 21^st Pennsylvania Cavalry, George Schriver, George W. Scott, Jonathan H. Bosserman and D.C. Brinkerhoff, are pictured here. The regiment is known for exchanging gunfire with Confederates outside Gettysburg, Pa., on June 26, 1863, and for serving as the bodyguard for President Abraham Lincoln when he visited Gettysburg to participate in dedication ceremonies for the national cemetery.

Bull Run Discovered by Keith Knoke and James Burgess (pp. 31- 33)
The authors, following the pioneer work of William Frassanito at Gettysburg, have uncovered the spot where several 1862 images were taken of the battlefield. The study is illustrated by period and contemporary images of the Henry Hill area, where heavy fighting occurred during the First Battle of Bull Run.

Thornton or Thornberry by James Burgess (pp. 34-35)
Burgess, a museum specialist at Manassas National Battlefield Park, asserts that the well-known George Barnard photograph of the William N. Thornton house is in fact the home of John Thornberry.

Uniforms & History by Michael J. McAfee (pp. 36-37)
In “The Orange Blossoms,” McAfee examines the uniforms of the 124^th New York Infantry. Better known as “The Orange Blossoms,” the regiment received this name from its commanding colonel, the colorful Augustus Van Horne Ellis. Portraits of Bugler Moses Ross and Sgt. Woodward T. Ogden are featured.

Stragglers (p. 38)
Two images are featured: A little girl holding a portrait of a soldier that is very likely her father, and Pvt. Thomas J. Presson of the 1^st North Carolina Cavalry.

Sutler’s Row (p. 39)

The Last Shot (p. 40)
A soldier dressed in the uniform of an officer is identified as Pvt. William Jefferson Billings, who served in Companies E, G and H of the 25^th Georgia Infantry. The confusion of the uniform rank and actual rank is not explained.

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A carte de visite from the Michael J. McAfee collection pictures Corp. Joseph Pierce of the 14^th Connecticut Infantry, an Asian-American who served in the Union army.

Table of Contents (p. 1)

Editor’s Desk (p. 3)
Founder Harry Roach steps away from the editor’s chair. “I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to all of you who have contributed so much to MI and to me over the years. I value you more than you can imagine. Your friendship is beyond price. I never thought of MI as mine. It has always been yours, and so it will remain.” Incoming editor Philip Katcher responds to Roach’s years as editor. “It won’t be an easy act to follow. Harry virtually created this magazine’s unique niche. Never before had a magazine just been aimed at saving and sharing the visual history of the American military.”

Mail Call (pp. 4-5)
Topics include congratulations on the recent vivandières story and the documentation of an eBay fake, which is cause for concern among collectors.

Uniforms & History by Michael J. McAfee (pp. 6-7)
In “The Recruit: ‘Any free white male person…,’” McAfee explores Article XL, Section 944, of the Revised Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861. It describes clothing and equipment issued to recruits. Two images illustrate the Section, including a carte de visite of Albert A. Boynton of the 2^nd New York Cavalry. Another illustration is an 1858 paper from the U.S. Office of Army Clothing & Equipage that lists items available for issue to new soldiers at a recruit rendezvous.

Armed and Dangerous: A study of real photo postcards and not-so-real armaments by Richard K. Tibbals (pp. 8-13)
A survey of 16 World War I era soldier and sailor portraits describes the uniforms worn and weapons held by the men, and offers analysis on whether the items are genuine or props. One of the images is identified, two sailors named Myron Hopper and Clarence Duane.

A Thermoplastic Quintet: Five Patriotic Cases in the Collection of Herm Engelhardt (pp. 14-15)
The survey includes a tent and cannon scene, a shield, an eagle, a shield and flags, and the Monitor at sea. The text references the second edition of Paul Berg’s Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames.

Salt Water Buckeye: Lt. Cmdr. John J. Cornwell, U.S.N. by Timothy Brookes (pp. 16-17)
Cornwell, a native of New Lisbon, Ohio, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1853 and went on to serve as commander of the monitor Nahant during the Civil War. He barely outlived the war, dying in early 1867 in France. At the time he was executive officer of the double-turreted monitor Miantonomoh. The profile is illustrated with a wartime portrait of Cornwell and his wife, Hettie.

A Nation of Nations by Michael J. McAfee (pp. 18-19)
Reflecting on Ella Lonn’s classic Foreigners in the Union Army, the author surveys seven images of soldiers who hailed from other countries. They include Joseph Pierce of the 14^th Connecticut Infantry (pictured on the cover), German-born Christian Dickel of the 4^th New York Cavalry, Thomas Francis Meagher of the famed Irish Brigade, Poland’s Wladimir Kryzanowski of the 58^th New York Infantry, Hungarian-born Frederick D’Utassy of the 39^th New York Infantry (Garibaldi Guard) and Scotsman John McKenzie of the 79^th New York Infantry (Highlanders).

Belle Plain and “The Punch Bowl” in 1864 by Noel G. Harrison (pp. 20-29)
Described as “A Research Report from Virginia,” the author recognizes the work of D.P. Newton, a fisherman and relic hunter who came to know the Belle Plain area as few others might. His collected observations build on the pioneer work of William Frassanito. Included are several period and modern images of Belle Plain keyed to a map that indicates the views.

Earnest Eddy Haskell Earns a Commission by Col. George S. Pappas, U.S. Army. Ret. (pp. 30-36)
The author tells the story of Ernest Eddie Haskell, a young West Point cadet who happened to serve with Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders in 1898. Shot in the hip and intestines on July 1, 1898, Haskell may be the only cadet to have seen combat and been wounded in action while a cadet. He managed to survive his wound and went on to serve in the regular army. He eventually rose to the rank of colonel and died on active duty in 1932.

Captain Bob’s Caveat Emptorium (p. 37)
An occasional feature, the tongue-in-cheek photo dealer Cap’n Bob (Harry Roach) offers up what he believes is a Confederate soldier photo for $500—cash only! The recipient of the offer, Bill (also Harry Roach), politely declines the offer and goes on to describe that in fact this is not a Confederate or an old photo, but a modern image made by William Dunniway in 1999.

Sutler’s Row (pp. 38-39)

Back Cover
A carte de visite from the Harry Roach collection is a portrait of Willing F. Lewis of the 32^nd Pennsylvania Emergency Infantry and three young ladies identified as Miss B.M. Lewis, who is perhaps the soldier’s sister, and the “Misses Pennington.”

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Cover image
A sixth-plate ambrotype shows a First-Sergeant from Massachusetts wearing a battle pin which features the photograph of his commanding general.

Editor’s Desk (p. 1)
The editor turned his column over to the Executive Director of the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association, Dr. Walter L. Powell, who is concerned about the possibility of land adjacent to remaining battlefield areas being taken over by development. He encourages readers to contact their legislators in support of H.R. 797 (“The Taney Farm Bill”) to preserve that land and force a geological survey to determine final boundaries for preservation at Gettysburg.

Mail Call (p. 3)
One of several letters to the editor requests readers to help provide more information about one of his images, which appears to show a soldier with an embroidered 8th Corps insignia on his kepi. Another reader complains about an anti-gun control ad, requesting that political issue ads be avoided in the future; the editor suggests that the ad be ignored if it disturbs. A reader suggests an article on WW1 balloons, and is told that Military Images stopped publishing First World War articles about a year previously as there was not enough support for them by the readership.

Passing in Review (pp. 4-5)
Three publications are set for review in this issue of MI. First is General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior by James I. Robertson. The reviewer considers this to be a valuable biography of one of Lee’s important corps commanders, and feels that Robertson pointed out Hill’s weaknesses as a commander fairly. One point, however, that the reviewer makes is that an image purportedly of Hill in the 1850s shows a man in a naval, not army, uniform. Next is Henry Hopkins Sibley: Confederate General of the West by Jerry Thompson, which outlines the career of the man who is most remembered as the inventor of the Sibley tent. His story is much more than that. Hoping to gain quick advancement in the Confederate army, Sibley used his connections to Jefferson Davis to formulate a plan to raise an army in Texas and capture New Mexico and the precious metal fields of Colorado. The biography describes how and why this plan did not succeed. Finally, there is a lengthy review of Nothing But Glory: Pickett’s Division at Gettysburg by Kathleen R. Georg and John W. Busey. It is an interesting look not at Pickett’s Charge, but at his Confederate troops and their actions in and reactions to the charge. Using a number of previously untapped primary sources, Georg follows the men into the conflict, and like many of them, wonders where General Pickett actually was. Busey’s contribution lies in statistical evidence, along with rosters that outline each name and what the result was for each. The volume is highly recommended.

Civil War Badges, Part IV: Miscellaneous Badges by Wendell W. Lang, Jr. (pp. 6-15)
Eighteen different images illustrate the last type of badge discussed in this series of articles: the identification badge, a probable precursor to the “dog tag” worn in later conflicts. Generally made from stamped brass and often coming in three separate parts, soldiers could order these badges in order to identify themselves in the event of their death in battle. Some of the unique badges, similar to the one on the front cover of this issue of Military Images could include a small photograph of a famous politician (one thinks of the election of 1864), a commanding general, or even the soldier’s sweetheart back home. Some of the images show these identification badges in combination with Federal Corps badges. Some of them are in their complete three piece form while others are missing pieces and the soldier had to improvise how to attach them to their uniform. A few of the images show soldiers wearing badges on their outer coats and on their vests, perhaps to insure their identification should they be wounded or killed.

The Iredell Blues: An Independent Company of North Carolina Militia circa 1860 by Robert Fulmer (pp. 16-17)
The daguerreotype shows a large brick building with a full complement of soldiers, officers, and band members wearing elaborate uniforms that included white trousers and white plumes in their hats. They stand at present arms before a line of trees. The image, not published previously, was found in the estate of Mrs. Estelle Brady of Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina and that is where researchers began to try and identify the group. The article describes the various hints that the daguerreotype provides and gives the readers a very rare look at an identified antebellum Southern militia.

The Kearny Medal by William Styple (pp. 18-19)
Major General Philip Kearny had a long and storied career in the Federal Army. He lost an arm fighting in the Mexican War, and with the French Army fighting in Italy, he was awarded the Legion of Honor medal in 1859. Killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Virginia in September 1862, Kearny rode straight into a Confederate line of battle that he had not been able to see clearly during the heavy rainstorm. He was called to surrender, but Kearny chose to turn and attempt to escape. His subordinates wanted to design and award a fitting remembrance for General Kearny, and devised what became known as the Kearny Medal, which was awarded to only 320 officers, five of whom are shown in images wearing the Medal. Kearny’s successor, General David Birney ordered the creation of the “Kearny Cross” which was different in design and presented to 463 noncommissioned officers, privates, and two vivandieres.

…And A Few Marines: U.S.M.C. Photos, 1898-1939 compiled by John A. Stacey (pp. 20-24)
Marines shown in this pictorial article served all over the world, from Guantanamo Bay to the Philippines to Samoa with their Fita Fita Guard. Their uniforms changed with linen summer dress shirts to the more common olive drab or khaki colors that we associate with Marines today. The collection of photographs includes individual portraits along with units posing for the camera as groups.

Bringing Up the Rear (pp. 25-29, 31)
This “holiday potpourri” of the regular “Stragglers” includes a large carte de visite taken by Mathew Brady of members of companies C and D of the 21st New York Infantry in Virginia in 1861, with identification of the individuals in the image. Another image shows surviving members of the 8th Illinois Cavalry; one of their number fired a shot at a Confederate officer, setting off what became the Battle of Gettysburg. Two post-war cartes de visite show young boys in uniform, one with a surplus Maynard carbine while the other shows a young soldier in kepi driving a dog pulling an “Express” wagon. Other images include an ambrotype of a mounted militiaman wearing a tricorn hat and a cabinet card of soldier wearing an unidentified badge. A total of fourteen images are included.

Back Image
A sixth-plate ambrotype shows a Confederate wearing his battle shirt, dating from the early years of the Civil War.