American Civil War,Private Horace H. Smith,16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment,1861

Title: [Private Horace H. Smith of Company G, 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, in forage cap with bayonet, musket, cartridge box, and musket sling etched H. H. Smith]
Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1863]
Summary: This tintype portrait of a Union soldier displays unusual clarity and fine detail. Its subject is well equipped with his bayonet, musket, cartridge box, and musket sling etched 'H. H. Smith,' a crucial clue in identifying the sitter as Private Horace H. Smith. Additional details on his forage cap, enhanced by hand in gold, indicate that he was part of Company G in the 16th Regiment.
Notes:
Identification by Dana Shoaf, editor of Civil War Times magazine, May 2011, who saw this tintype in the Library's exhibition The Last Full Measure, spotted the identifying clues, and entered them into a Civil War soldiers database to recover Smith's name. Thanks to the interactive work of outside specialists with staff experts, future researchers can better trace the stories of previously unidentified Civil War soldiers.
Title devised by Library staff.
Case: Leather gem geometric design.
Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: 'The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection' at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
Subjects:
Smith, Horace H.,--1837-1918.
United States.--Army--People--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.
Rifles--1860-1870.
Bayonets--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.
Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Tintypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2010648825/
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