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Brevet Brigadier General
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Regtl. Quartermaster Shiloh 2020
Asst. Regtl. Quartermaster Antietam 2021
Regtl. Quartermaster Stones River / Franklin 2022
- Joined
- May 7, 2016
- Location
- Alabama
While doing some research I came across some photos in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs in the LOC. I came across the first photo which is what drew me in. It was a photo of a little boy with a tintype of his soldier Dad on top of a Bible. It was the look in the boys eyes that got me. I scrolled on and came across several others one with a name. Who where they I ask myself so I put it aside for later. Then the last one put a lump in my throat as it was of a deceased little girl. It got me to thinking why would they take such a photo, could it be this baby was born and died while her Dad was off at war and it was a way for them to be able to show him his little girl?
Wife of James Shields in mourning dress with photo of her husband on a mourning broach. His daughter is wearing a grey kepi. Who was he and what was his story.
Holding a tintype of her Confederate husband.
This one really got to me. The caption said deceased child.
Wife of James Shields in mourning dress with photo of her husband on a mourning broach. His daughter is wearing a grey kepi. Who was he and what was his story.
Holding a tintype of her Confederate husband.
This one really got to me. The caption said deceased child.