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Steamboat, U. S. Navy Yards, 1864

Description: Image of a steamboat being built; the framing for the hull sits on the slipways. There are a number of workmen standing either next to or inside the unfinished hull. Just beyond are two vessels, a steamboat not yet completed, and the Steamboat Bridgeport.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 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.

Steamboat Kingston

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Image of the steamboat Kingston, a sternwheeler, on the Tennessee River. The railings are crowded with men and women; on the top deck there is a Union Military band. The American flag flies from middle-back of the vessel. Steam shoots into the air from two vent stacks.

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Infantry Company in Formation, Chattanooga Navy Yard

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Image of a union infantry company standing in formation. A rock filled patch cleared ground dominates the foreground. In the background are various buildings and a long wooden fence.

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The Navy Yard Chattanooga Tenn Capt. Slayton's Mill

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Image of the Union Navy Yard in Chattanooga. There is a large building with a cupola in the center of the image, probably Captain Slayton's Mill. In the foreground, on the right, is an enclosed yard with various wagons; in the center is a large barn-like building.

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[Military Bridge, Chattanooga, Tennessee, taken from the Navy Yard]

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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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Officers 1st U. S. V. V. Eng'rs

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40 small portraits of the Officers of the 1st United States Veteran Volunteer Engineers arranged as a composite portrait within a hand drawn frame. Under each portrait is the name and rank of the officer. In the center is the largest portrait, that of Colonel William E. Merrill. The other officers in this composite portrait are: Lieut. Colonel Perrin V. Fox ; 1st Lt. & Adjt. Horace D. Olds ; 1st Lt. & Q.M. Robert R. Murphy ; Major Charles P. Huntington ; Major Patrick O'Connell ; Major James R. Willett ; Surgeon Alfred Edelin ; Assistant Surgeon Alfred G. Brown ; Assistant Surgeon George A. Haise ; Captain Charles E. McAlester (spelled McAllister by Bonsall) ; Captain Abijah A. Olcott ; Captain John Froelich ; Captain George Turner ; Captain William Lawrence ; Captain Henry H. Chandler ; Captain James R. Slayton ; Captain William O. Sarr ; Captain John Thomas ; Captain William M. Loughlin ; 1st Lt. George W. Wilson ; 1st Lt. Raymond E. Wiswell ; 1st Lt. Samuel S. Merrill ; 1st Lt. Harrison Choate ; 1st Lt. James Mullen ; 1st Lt. Philip Eichhorn ; 1st Lt. Joseph W. R. Stambaugh ; 1st Lt. Jonathon Cook ; 1st Lt. Charles Sinnet ; 1st Lt. John P. Brisben ; 1st Lt. Sylvanus Bartlett ; 1st Lt. Richard Good ; 1st Lt. John T. McMann ; 2d Lt. Henry H. Russell ; 2d Lt. Edmund W. Hunt ; 2d Lt. John C. McConnell ; 2d Lt. Stephen J. Houston ; 2d Lt. Robert M. Willie ; 2d Lt. George W. Marchant ; and 2d Lt. Charles M. Day.

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Non-Com'd Staff, 1st U. S. V. V. Engr's

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Eight smaller portraits framed by wreaths surrounding a larger portrait in the center on a single sheet. All letter and decorations are hand done. Above each portrait in the name of the sitter. The largest portrait in the center is that of H. D. Olds, Lt, and Adjt. At the top center, proceeding clockwise are: P. N. Fox ; Chas. H. Mead; C. S. Carr; W. J. Crow; Oscar Haise; A. S. Hurtt; Wm. T. Green; and H. P. Colgrove. The chevrons on a number of the men have been painted blue.

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Steamboat, U. S. Navy Yards, 1864

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