[Edwin Chamberlain of Company G, 11th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment in sergeant's uniform with guitar] (LOC)

    [Edwin Chamberlain of Company G, 11th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment in sergeant's uniform with guitar]

    [between 1861 and 1865]

    1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 12.3 x 11 cm. (frame)

    Notes:
     Frame: Berg 7-41.
    Title devised by Library staff.
    Additional information in collections file.
    Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105)
    Purchased from: Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, Texas, 2008, from John Henry Kurtz Collection of American Civil War History.

    Subjects:
     Chamberlain, Edwin,--d. 1864.
    United States.--Army.--New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 11th (1862-1865)--People.
    Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
    Military uniforms--Union--1870-1880.
    Guitars--1860-1870.
    Musicians--1860-1870.
    United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.

    Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
    Tintypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870.

    Rights Info: No known restriction on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    Part Of: Ambrotype/Tintype filing series (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650518
    Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519

    More information about this collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj

    Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.26455

    Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 5010

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    2. Atsah Images (24 months ago | reply)

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    3. Zinaida Beaumont (will catch Sunday) (24 months ago | reply)

      Great capture

    4. This photo was invited and added to the Veterans of the American Civil War group.

    5. ndlxs (24 months ago | reply)

      From ancestry.com:
      Edwin Chamberlain
      Residence: Bath, New Hampshire
      Enlistment Date: 11 Aug 1862
      Side Served: Union
      State Served: New Hampshire
      Service Record: Enlisted as a Corporal on 11 August 1862 at the age of 18.
      Enlisted in Company G, 11th Infantry Regiment New Hampshire on 2 Sep 1862.
      Died of disease Company G, 11th Infantry Regiment New Hampshire on 23 Jan 1864 at Camp Nelson, KY.
      Sources: 12

    6. This photo was invited and added to the Civil War Page group.

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