Lefty and his pal Lefty...

[Private Watkins]

(...because "Righty" isn't a good nickname.)

Corporal George W. Brown who served in both the 157th and 191st Pennsylvania Infantry, and Corporal Edwin S. Kellogg of the 89th New York Infantry. Both men would lose their left arms at Petersburg. There are a number of different views of these two. Edwin Kellogg stands to the right dressed in his New York Jacket with the sleeve pinned up and holding a musket. Brown stands next to him cradling the flag keeping it from touching the ground.

They took a number of different views which were sold to help raise money. This one has an old pencil inscription on the reverse which says "Pitisburg June 18, 1864" marking the date when the two men were wounded. Back marked out of Pottsville, PA.

Does anyone know what they were raising money for... maybe wounded veterans and/or their families? Also would love to see any other photos of them together given the reported "number of different views of these two."

 

[Yankeedave]

Poncho

And Lefty?

 

[rpkennedy]

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(because "Righty" isn't a good nickname...)

Corporal George W. Brown who served in both the 157th and 191st Pennsylvania Infantry, and Corporal Edwin S. Kellogg of the 89th New York Infantry. Both men would lose their left arms at Petersburg. There are a number of different views of these two. Edwin Kellogg stands to the right dressed in his New York Jacket with the sleeve pinned up and holding a musket. Brown stands next to him cradling the flag keeping it from touching the ground.

They took a number of different views which were sold to help raise money. This one has an old pencil inscription on the reverse which says "Pitisburg June 18, 1864" marking the date when the two men were wounded. Back marked out of Pottsville, PA.

Does anyone know what they were raising money for... maybe wounded veterans and/or their families? Also would love to see any other photos of them together given the reported "number of different views of these two."

They were probably raising money for soldiers crippled during the war and unable to make a living. That was pretty typical in the post-war years.

Ryan

 

[Private Watkins]

They were probably raising money for soldiers crippled during the war and unable to make a living. That was pretty typical in the post-war years.

Ryan

Yes, probably so...

 

[rpkennedy]

Yes, probably so...

If you'd like to know more, I'd heartily recommend Brian Matthew Jordan's Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War.

Ryan

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Is that Bretz Photographers, Pottsville? You could see why fund raisers would have been initiated in Pottsville, used to be quite a hub between the canals, railroad and mining. Schuylkill County, PA sent so many men to enlist, they sent men back. Post war, fell apart slowly when the canals went out then a truly brutal mine and railroad owner put a choke hold on labor. Some of the Molly Maguires were hung there, vets among them.

 

[tryagain]

Years ago I saw a tinted turn of the century postcard which had two brothers one us the other csa. Now each had Lost one arm (sorry I can't remember if they both lost a left or their right arms). Now didn't buy it.".". Too expansive.
Question. How many pictures of one limbed soldier groups are there?.

 

[reading48]

The Washington Artillerists and the National Light Infantry, both recruited in Pottsville became known as The First Defenders. Both units arrived in Washington on April 18th 1861 and were two of the units to enter the Capitol in the seven days after the First Defenders left Pottsville, 23 companies comprised of 1,795 were recruited from the area an impressive number, considering the population of the County was only 92,000 . Schuylkill County contributed so many men that Pennsylvania's Governor Curtain refused to accept any more Companies from the region.....

Schuylkill Living Magazine

Is that Bretz Photographers, Pottsville? You could see why fund raisers would have been initiated in Pottsville, used to be quite a hub between the canals, railroad and mining. Schuylkill County, PA sent so many men to enlist, they sent men back. Post war, fell apart slowly when the canals went out then a truly brutal mine and railroad owner put a choke hold on labor. Some of the Molly Maguires were hung there, vets among them.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

The Washington Artillerists and the National Light Infantry, both recruited in Pottsville became known as The First Defenders. Both units arrived in Washington on April 18th 1861 and were two of the units to enter the Capitol in the seven days after the First Defenders left Pottsville, 23 companies comprised of 1,795 were recruited from the area an impressive number, considering the population of the County was only 92,000 . Schuylkill County contributed so many men that Pennsylvania's Governor Curtain refused to accept any more Companies from the region.....

Schuylkill Living Magazine

It would sound like an extravagant compliment to anyone not familiar with how much you four know, Reading, to ask which one wrote that article. Perhaps not, it just would not surprise me to hear one of you had. Being awfully soft on Schuylkill County, can't get enough of this stuff, thank you!

You know, if they had to move the gosh darned capitol from Philly, can you imagine if they had built on what was already in place, in Pottsville? Harrisburg was a silly choice. Pottsville had all the advantages Harrisburg lacked- and still lacks.