1, 23 January, 2007

Portrait of a Musician, 2d Regulars, U.S. Cavalry, Civil War

Posted in Archive at 1:01 am by mirabilia

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Selected Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress

Portrait of a musician, 2d Regulars, U.S. Cavalry

Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865 from the Library of Congress, American Memory, Photograph 45 of 63
Portrait of a musician, 2d Regulars, U.S. Cavalry.
CREATED/PUBLISHED between 1860 and 1865, re-photographed 1961.
NOTES Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)
Copy photo made by LC in 1961 of a photograph in collection of Marius B. Péladeau.
Reference: American Memory edition timeline. No. 1095
Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).
CALL NUMBER Civil War Reference File
Credit line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

4 Comments »

  1. sponkit said,

    1, 23 February, 2007 at 5:56 am

    NICE BLOG. WHO’S THE GUY IN THE PICTURE?

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  2. mirabilia said,

    1, 5 October, 2007 at 6:12 pm

    Currently his name is unknown to me.

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  3. mirabilia said,

    1, 5 October, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    See The Civil War Archive http://www.civilwararchive.com
    for regimental histories of the Civil War. A regimental history of The United States Regular Army, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, can be found here:
    http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unrgcav.htm#2ndcav

    Original information taken from “A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion” by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3)

    Another site, US Regulars Archive
    http://www.usregulars.com
    references the same information from Dyer, with
    2nd Regulars, Cavalry history found here:
    http://www.usregulars.com/usarmy/dyer.html

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  4. mirabilia said,

    1, 7 December, 2007 at 7:57 pm

    This soldier appears often. He can be found at The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors system website, http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/
    His image is on the main Soldier search page,
    http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm.

    He can also be found on page 51 of the book
    Portraits of the Civil War in Photographs, Diaries, and Letters
    by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod, published 2002 by MetroBooks.
    (originally title, My Brother’s Face).

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