[Captain William W. Cosby of H Company, 2nd Virginia Light Artillery Regiment in uniform] (LOC)

    Rees, Charles R.,, photographer.

    [Captain William W. Cosby of H Company, 2nd Virginia Light Artillery Regiment in uniform]

    [between 1861 and 1865]

    1 photograph : approximate half-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 20.6 x 17.5 cm (frame)

    Notes:
     Title devised by Library staff.
    Frame: Thermoplastic frame fruit and scroll pattern.
    Additional information in collections file.
    Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).

    Subjects:
     Cosby, William W.--(William Woodson),--1824-1885.
    Confederate States of America.--Army.--Virginia Artillery Regiment, 2nd (1862)--People.
    Soldiers--Confederate--1870-1880.
    Military uniforms--Confederate--1870-1880.
    United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Confederate.

    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.26459

    Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 5045

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    3. swanq (26 months ago | reply)

      From ranger95.com/civil_war/virginia/artillery/2nd _arty_regt.html
      "Co. H. Capt. William W. Cosby's Co; enlisted February 4, 1862, for one year, reorganized May 19, 1862, subsequently became Co. H, 22nd Bn. Va. Inf. Captains: William W. Cosby, John S. Bowles."

      Presumably also the same guy:
      books.google.com/books?id=jzoUAAAAYAAJ&pg =PA933&l...

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