- Joined
- Dec 3, 2011
- Location
- Laurinburg NC
Expired Image Removed
"A SOUTH CAROLINIAN FALLS AT SECOND MANASSAS.—Thomas G. Sheppard, an 18-year-old clerk in Charleston, enlisted as a private in the Carolina Light Infantry Volunteers in the summer of 1861. He and his comrades mustered into Confederate service as Company L of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers (Gregg’s). Sheppard went on to Virginia and survived disease-ridden encampments and fighting through the engagements of the Seven Days,’ only to be mortally wounded at the Battle of Second Manassas on Aug. 29, 1862. He lingered for 19 days before he succumbed to his wounds at a hospital in Warrenton, Va. He was unmarried. Sheppard likely posed for this portrait shortly after enlistment. The Model 1842 musket he holds was standard issue and his waist belt plate was intentionally worn upside down to compensate for the reversed effect of the ambrotype process."
This sixth-plate ambrotype by an anonymous photographer is part of the Paul Reeder collection. It appeared in the Autumn 2015 issue of Military Images as part of "Palmetto Faces," a collection of South Carolinians at war.
"A SOUTH CAROLINIAN FALLS AT SECOND MANASSAS.—Thomas G. Sheppard, an 18-year-old clerk in Charleston, enlisted as a private in the Carolina Light Infantry Volunteers in the summer of 1861. He and his comrades mustered into Confederate service as Company L of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers (Gregg’s). Sheppard went on to Virginia and survived disease-ridden encampments and fighting through the engagements of the Seven Days,’ only to be mortally wounded at the Battle of Second Manassas on Aug. 29, 1862. He lingered for 19 days before he succumbed to his wounds at a hospital in Warrenton, Va. He was unmarried. Sheppard likely posed for this portrait shortly after enlistment. The Model 1842 musket he holds was standard issue and his waist belt plate was intentionally worn upside down to compensate for the reversed effect of the ambrotype process."
This sixth-plate ambrotype by an anonymous photographer is part of the Paul Reeder collection. It appeared in the Autumn 2015 issue of Military Images as part of "Palmetto Faces," a collection of South Carolinians at war.