[Edwin Chamberlain of Company G, 11th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment in sergeant's uniform with guitar] (LOC)
[Edwin Chamberlain of Company G, 11th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment in sergeant's uniform with guitar]
[between 1861 and 1865]
1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 12.3 x 11 cm. (frame)
Notes:
Frame: Berg 7-41.
Title devised by Library staff.
Additional information in collections file.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105)
Purchased from: Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, Texas, 2008, from
John Henry Kurtz Collection of American Civil War History.
Subjects:
Chamberlain, Edwin,--d. 1864.
United States.--Army.--New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 11th
(1862-1865)--People.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
Military uniforms--Union--1870-1880.
Guitars--1860-1870.
Musicians--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military
personnel--Union.
Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Tintypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870.
Rights Info: No known restriction 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.26455
Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 5010
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From ancestry.com:
Edwin Chamberlain
Residence: Bath, New Hampshire
Enlistment Date: 11 Aug 1862
Side Served: Union
State Served: New Hampshire
Service Record: Enlisted as a Corporal on 11 August 1862 at the age of 18.
Enlisted in Company G, 11th Infantry Regiment New Hampshire on 2 Sep 1862.
Died of disease Company G, 11th Infantry Regiment New Hampshire on 23 Jan 1864 at Camp Nelson, KY.
Sources: 12
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