[Unidentified young soldier in Union uniform with bayoneted musket, knife, and revolver] (LOC)

    [Unidentified young soldier in Union uniform with bayoneted musket, knife, and revolver]

    [between 1861 and 1865]

    1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.1 cm (case)

    Notes:
     Title devised by Library staff.
    Case: Leather geometric vines/leaves.
    Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).

    Subjects:
     United States.--Army--People--1860-1870.
    Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
    Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.
    Youth--1860-1870.
    United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.

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

    Rights Info: No known restrictions 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.26860

    Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2009

    Comments and faves

    1. schmeernirnir (25 months ago | reply)

      So young . . .

    2. Wurz (25 months ago | reply)

      Wow, could this be a woman?

    3. tammybeck (25 months ago | reply)

      it does look like a female, however the boy is so young he does not look "manly" yet

    4. jmc33vavols (25 months ago | reply)

      May be a woman, more than a few posed as men throughout the war, and even carried on as men til their deaths

    5. Purple Palindrome (25 months ago | reply)

      Looks like a woman to me!

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      Taifighta added this photo to their favorites. (25 months ago)

    7. Silverbluestar (25 months ago | reply)

      My very first impression was that this is a women and I can see I'm not the only one! I'd love to know the true story behind this!

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      Zeitgeist Mama and  JoesSistah added this photo to their favorites.

    9. Casey McKinnon (25 months ago | reply)

      Absolutely looks like a woman to me. No disrespect to him/her.

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      Ben McLeod added this photo to his favorites. (25 months ago)

    11. Buttons McTavish (25 months ago | reply)

      I thought it looked like a woman, immediately.

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      Buttons McTavish added this photo to her favorites. (25 months ago)

    13. Wurz (25 months ago | reply)

      I didn't mean any disrespect to the person in the shot.

      Just got a bit carried away with the thought that it might be a woman dressing as a man in order to take part.

      It's a great picture.

    14. Buttons McTavish (25 months ago | reply)

      exactly.

    15. chrisparkin51 (25 months ago | reply)

      I immediately thought this person may have been a woman also. I too would love to know this person's story either way.

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      chrisparkin51 and artinconnu added this photo to their favorites.

    17. Martyn William (25 months ago | reply)

      Baby boy ! So young - all these images are so beautiful and very moving to look at.

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

    19. Yankee_Belle (25 months ago | reply)

      I immediately thought it was a female too. But in all likelihood, just a very young male soldier. These photos are just amazing!

    20. Buttons McTavish (25 months ago | reply)

      Regardless of whether this is a portrait of a young man or women, there is a good amount of interesting information on women soldiers in the civil war: americancivilwar.com/women/

    21. meribor82 (24 months ago | reply)

      I also think this looks like a young woman. Look at the hips, seemingly wider than the waist.

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      a blackbird, terrier2468, aliceunder, Angie C, and Dakeca added this photo to their favorites.

    23. a_bedealia (20 months ago | reply)

      ummm... maybe I'm seeing too much into this picture, but to me it this looks like a PREGNANT young woman, it looks like theres a good sized baby bump there- she's pretty far from being able to button that bottom button

    24. ambivalent sleuth (20 months ago | reply)

      Would a female have posed for a photograph? Most photographs were for family and would they have wanted them to know they had enlisted in disguise?

    25. ErynsMom03 (20 months ago | reply)

      it looks like a young woman. could she be pregnant?

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      gunther hang, fissionerror, hereonearth, kerryel, and Jaime Lee added this photo to their favorites.

    27. Buttons McTavish (9 months ago | reply)

      would guess that added bulk around the middle might help disguise what's on top...

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      merybgen and Deana Birks added this photo to their favorites.

    29. biggrinmastiff (3 weeks ago | reply)

      10 year old boy

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