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Image of the monument to the 20th New York State Militia & 80th New York Infantry, also known as the Ulster Guard. At the top of the monument is a round medallion with a right hand surrounded by the words: This hand for our Country. Carved into the stone surrounding the medallion is: Ulster Guard / 20th N.Y. State Militia. In the middle of the monument is carved: 80th N.Y. Infantry, / 1st Brig. 3d Div. 1st. Corps. / Organized 1851 at Kingston, N.Y. / as 20th N.Y.S.M. / Apr. 28, 1861 Entered U. S. service for 3 months. / Sept. 5, 1861 Re-entered service for 3 years. / Sept. 5, 1864 Re-enlisted as veterans for the war. / Jan. 28, 1866 Mustered out of service. Below this inscription is the shield for the State of New York. . The photograph has been affixed to a card with the photographer's signature and "Gettysburg, Pa." printed in gold lettering at the bottom.
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The Singleton Collection is organized into four discrete yet interrelated units. The first consists of 79 photographs by Mathew Brady (1823-1896) and Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) of scenes of the Civil War taken between 1861 and 1865. Included are group portraits of generals with their staffs, important wartime sites and activities, and photographs of paintings depicting various skirmishes. While the photographs were taken by Brady and Gardner during the war, the images were printed around 1885 by John Taylor and marketed by the firm of Taylor & Huntington. These photographer-entrepreneurs hoped to capitalize on twenty-fifth anniversary war reunions and commemorations by reissuing the once-familiar views. On the verso of each image is a partial list of the photographs sold by Taylor & Huntington for 75 cents a piece. The second grouping of photographs depicts two views of Abraham Lincoln and portraits of the Lincoln conspirators and their execution. These were also taken by Brady and Gardner during the war and, as with the first group, printed and issued around 1885 by Taylor & Huntington. Of particular rarity are the fourteen photographs of the Lincoln assassination conspirators including portraits of David Herold, George Atzerodt, Edward Spangler, two views of Lewis Payne, two views of Michael O'Laughlin, and an unidentified conspirator. Additionally, there is a complete set of three images depicting the execution of Mrs. Surratt and the conspirators taken by Alexander Gardner on July 7, 1865, as well as three of the five known images documenting the execution of Captain Wirz, the notorious Keeper of Andersonville Prison. Eighty-three cabinet portraits of Confederate Generals and other Southern leaders by George S. Cook (1819-1902) comprise the third section of the collection. Cook was a friend and former employee of Matthew Brady, and he provided E.& H.T. Anthony Co. with portraits from the South, including the first portrait of Colonel Robert Anderson. These portraits may come from sources other than Cook as he purchased competing photographers negatives, issuing them on his mounts. These portraits were taken in the 1860s but printed between 1880 and 1890 when Cook operated his Richmond, Virginia studio at 913 East Main Street. The last grouping of photographs contains 210 images by William H. Tipton (1850-1929), the self-described "Battlefield Photographer." The imperial-sized photographs depict the numerous monuments erected on the Gettysburg battlefield to honor the soldiers who fought and died in this decisive battle. The photographs date from the 1880s. The Singleton Collection constitutes of one of the most complete historic archives of the Gettysburg monuments.
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Image of the monument to the 32nd Massachusetts Infantry. On the face of the monument, which resembles a field tent, is written: Here the / 32d Massachusetts Infy. / 2nd Brig. 1st. Div. 5th A. C. / withstood an attack of the enemy / about 5 o'clock p.m. July 2, 1863. / Withdrawn from here it fought again in the / Wheatfield. / It lost in both actions in killed and wounded / 78 out of 227 officers and men. Behind the monument is a barb-wire fence and a field strewn with boulders. The photograph has been affixed to a card with the photographer's signature and "Gettysburg, Pa." printed in gold lettering at the bottom.
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