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Portrait of a Union soldier

Description: Portrait of a soldier in a Union Cavalry uniform. The young soldier is sitting with his legs crossed, a sword cradled in his lap. In the lower right corner of the print is written: JE.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1863-1864
Call number: photCL 491
Creator: Bonsall, I. H (1833-1909)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of John Boland, December 2008.; Purchased for the Huntington from the Andrew Smith Gallery by the Library Collectors' Council, January 2009.; Gift of John Boland, November 2009.; Gift of Claire Lozier and Andrew Smith, December 2019.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Partial artillery squad in a Union redoubt, Fortress Rosecrans, Murfreesboro, Tenn

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Photograph of an artillery unit repositioning a gun. Four men with levers are around the gun; standing behind observing is a sergeant and an officer. The officer has his sword drawn.

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Genl. Hooker on Point Lookout, Lookout Mt

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Image of General Joseph Hooker sitting on the rocks of Point Lookout. He holds his hat and gloves in his lap.

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[Group of 7 Union Army soldiers posed in demonstration of eating at mess, possibly Chattanooga, Tennessee]

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This collection contains 54 photographs by photographer Isaac H. Bonsall chiefly depicting the landscape and Union Army operations during the American Civil War in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, Corinth, Mississippi, and the surrounding regions, from approximately 1862 to 1865. The prints primarily document encampments, buildings, artillery, steamships, railroad bridges, and soldiers. The collection also includes some portraits of soldiers and Union officers, including the officers of the 1st United States Veteran Volunteer Engineers and Generals William S. Rosencrans, John H. King, George H. Thomas, and Joseph Hooker. Among the images are two images of African American Union troops. A landscape view of grazing farm animals near Arkansas City, Kansas, is the only image in the collection that does not date from the Civil War, and also the only image carrying Bonsall's imprint. There are also two additional images that were not taken by Bonsall and include copyright information for N. Brown.

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Union artillery unit posed with cannon

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Image of eight men standing around a field gun, ready to fire. There are two sergeants at the front, on the sides, and in the back there is an officer, his coat unbuttoned.

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[Seated Union army officer]

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[Union cavalry squad and carriage traveling, Tennessee]

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Portrait of a Union soldier

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