1861 NY Legislature Album
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1873 Massachusettes Senate
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1891 New York Legislature. Above is Edward Hall.
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Bates College Album. Above is Hallie Quinn Brown. Also identified in the album are Catherine Agnes McVay, Aaron Breede, Annie Maria Brackett, Harriett Mary Brackett, Walter Henry Davis, Last Name of Dinning, Rufus Edwin Donnell, Florence Adelaide Dudley, Eben Hutchinson Emery, Charles Smith Flanders, Eugene Martin Holden, Ella Louise Knowles, Last Name Little, Harrison Whitney, Last Name Wilson, Samuel Arthur Fleming, Benjamin F. Hay, George C. Chase, Hallie Quinn Brown, Joshua L. Chamberlain and Oren B. Cheney. There are quite a few that are unidentified.
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Hunt and Keith Military Album. Many identified in this Delvan Wisconsin and Dubuque Iowa Album. Includes General Sherman, Mary E. Keith Hunt with Susan Hunt, Chester Welch, William B. Hunt with Mary E. Keith Hunt, Phoeba Hunt, Mary and David Hunt, Emma Estella Hunt, Hunt Child, R.D. Hunt, Hussy Hunt, William B. Hunt (Pictured Above), Frank Hunt, Wesley Hunt, Andrew Welch Hunt, Josiah C. Hunt, Lewis Keith, William Butler Keith, John S. Keith, Lewis Findley, Orison T. Fuller, James Layndes, Alexander J. Campbell, Oliver H. Smith, Andrew J. Payne, Hugh Waterhouse, Larius C. Hambart, Charles W. Harlar, Henry Manigal and Fritz Grimskie
None of the family are identified in this album of Civil War Soldiers and Officers. Included are Robert E. Lee, George Custer (Pictured Above), General Grant, General Sheridan, Jeb Stuart, Robert E. Lee, General David E. Twiggs, John Clem, General Johnston, General Grant, General Mosby, General Hood, General Bragg, Abraham Lincoln and George Custer.
A Civil War Collectors Album featuring General John Morgan, General George P. Buell, General Robert Anderson, General James Longstreet, General John B. McGruder, General Henry W. Halleck, U.S. Attorney and Senator John J. Crittenden, General Robert Augustus Toombs, General George B. McClellan, Youngest Soldier John Clem, General Simon B. Buckner, General F. Conant, General U.S. Grant, Meeting Of Generals, General George G. Meade, Meeting Of Generals, Commodore Andrew Hull Foote, General Winfield Scott (Pictured Above), General Leonidas Polk, General George B. McClellan, General Albert Sidney Johnston, Tom Thumb’s Wedding Group, The Fairy Wedding Group SIGNED, Mary Todd Lincoln, Edwin M. Stanton and Confederate Editor George D. Prentice.
This is the Stiles Family Album. A number of soldiers in the family. Identified are Edward Rockhill Stiles, George Potter Stiles, E. Stiles Jr., Major Evan Morrison Woodward (Pictured Above), George and Emma Stiles and Mrs, John Elliot. EVAN MORRISON WOODWARD, of Puritan and Huguenot origin, was the son of James S. and Rebecca Anna (De-la-Montaigne) Woodward, and was born in Philadelphia, March 11th, 1828. He received a liberal education at a private school. Influenced by the love of adventure, he sailed around Cape Horn to California, and spent several years in roaming through that State, Mexico, and South America, returning eastward across the continent. He studied law under John R. Vogdes of Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar. Turning his attention to literature soon afterwards, he wrote the History of the Citizen Soldiery of Philadelphia from 1704 to 1845. He was connected with the Sunday Mercury, and became assistant editor. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion, he organized a company and was commissioned Captain, on the 19th of April, 1861. The Second Reserve, to which he was attached, moved to the front without being mustered into the United States service. On being paraded for the purpose, some dissatisfaction having arisen, two-thirds of the men refused to take the oath. His own company and four others having been disbanded, to induce his men to remain true to their flag, he exchanged the sword for the musket, promising to stay with them to the last. Subsequently he was promoted to Sergeant-Major, and served as such throughout all the hard-fought battles in which the Reserves participated on the Peninsula, in Pope’s, and the Maryland campaigns. At Antietam, the Second was left with but one commissioned officer, the command of the left wing devolving upon Woodward, and the desperate resistance which it made to an assault of the enemy gained for him the rank of Adjutant. In the memorable charge of the Reserves at Fredericksburg, the Second turned a rifle-pit, and, swinging round upon the heights, cut off the retreat of its occupants. The Seventh Reserve being in front of the pit, and not knowing the position of the Second, fired into it continuous volleys, which the Second in the heat of the battle did not discover and poured in a terrific fire at short range in return. The enemy in the meantime remained passive, neither giving token of surrender nor attempting defence. Finally Adjutant Woodward, discovering the situation, strove to stop the fire, and sheathing his sword, with cap in hand, advancing between the two lines, asked if they wished to “fight or surrender.” “We will surrender if you will allow us,” was the reply. The entire body with their flag was thereupon sent over to the Seventh. In this encounter Woodward had thirteen bullet holes through his clothes, leaving some wounds, but none serious. For his gallantry he was brevetted Major. He served with his regiment at Gettysburg and in other battles. After the war he settled among the green hills of his native State. While in the army he wrote the Picket Letters, which attracted considerable attention, and afterwards Our Campaigns, and the History of the Third Reserve and the One Hundred and Ninety-eighth regiments. SOURCE: MARTIAL DEEDS OF PENNSYLVANIA BY SAMUEL P. BATES; PHILADELPHIA: T. H. DAVIS & CO., 1876. Part II, Chapter XI, Pages 799-800. Woodward, E. Morrison. s. James S. & Rebecca Anna (de la Montaignie) Woodward. b. 11 March 1828 in Philadelphia. m. Cornelia Laura Canfield, 27 December 1866. 2 ch. George Canfield (b. 15 Dec. 1867, d. 4 Nov. 1887). Reginald Herber (b. 12 Aug. 1869). He has written a number of books on local and on on military history. He is the author of “The History of the Citizen Soldiers of Philadelphia 1723-1859,” and “Our Campaigns.” “History of Bordentown, N.J.” “Old Families of Burlington County.” “The History of Burlington and Mercer Counties.” “Bonaparte’s Park and The Murats.” “History of the Second Regiment, Penn’a Reserves.” “History of the Third Regiment, Penn’a Reserves.” “history of the Fourth Regiment, Penn’a Reserves.” “History of the 198th Penn’a Volunteers.” He lives [Lived] at Ellisdale, N.J., he is a lawyer. SOURCE: “A History of Thomas Canfield and of Matthew Camfield: With a Genealogy of their Descendants in New Jersey.” By Frederick Alexander Canfield
This album is belonged to the daughter of Reverend Hiram Phelps Arms, Sarah Jane Arms Clarke and is full of Clergy, Poets Singers, Abolitionists and Military. Most likely Hiram got a lot of these photos for his daughter. Pictured above is Colonel Henry Champion Deming, Civil War Union Army Officer, US Congressman. Served as Mayor of Hartford from 1854 to 1858. After the outbreak of the Civil War, on October 15, 1861, he was appointed Colonel and commander of the 12th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He led the regiment in the early 1862 fighting in Louisiana, and was briefly put in command of Fort Jackson after its capture by the Union. He was then appointed as military mayor of New Orleans after the capitulation of that city to Union forces in May 1862. Served as military mayor from October 1862 to February 1863, when he resigned his Union Army commission due to his wife’s severe illness. While in army service he was elected to represent CT’s 1st District in the House of Representatives, and served from 1863 to 1867. To the right of him is Lydia Huntley Sigourney (September 1, 1791 – June 10, 1865), née Lydia Howard Huntley, was an American poet, author, and publisher during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford.” She had a long career as a literary expert, publishing 52 books and in over 300 periodicals in her lifetime. While some of her works were signed anonymously, most of her works were published with just her married name Mrs. Sigourney. Bottom left is Louisa May Alcott and to her right is Frank Hiram Arms Pay Master, U.S. Navy. Died at Apia, Samoa in the wreck of the USS Vandalia. Identified in this album is The Christ Church in Middletown Connecticut, Colonel Henry Champion Deming, Lydia Howard Sigourney, Charles Sigourney, Miss Lizzie Ford, Belle White, Gertrude, Phebe Hubbard, Ruth Hubbard, Phebe and Hattie Stryker, Miranda Havens (Mrs. William Arms), Calista Arms (Mrs. Lemuel Farwell), Confederate Colonel George Henry Arms, John Breed, Amie F. Larrabee (Mrs. John Breed), Poet Alice Cary, Major General William Huntington Russell, Miss Rebecca Bull Southmayd, Belle Garber, General Alfred Perkins Rockwell, Lt. Charles Jessup Arms, Paymaster Frank Hiram Arms, Kate Godfrey Child, Calvin Goddard Child, Thomas Bacon, Mary R. Bacon, Diplomat Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, Phoebe Cary, Anna Abbott, Dr. Lucius Abbott, Edward Woolsey Bacon, Harriett Burnett (Mrs. Rev. John R. Crane), Mrs. Anne C. Carpenter nee Osborn, Rev. William Barker Clarke, Sarah Jane Arms, Mrs. Hiram P. Phelps, Miss M. Hillard, Mary Elizabeth Ford and Dr. Aaron Lucius Chapin. There are many in this album that are of notoriety, but I have yet to identify them.
Album belonging to John Muir the naturalist. Above picture is him with grandchildren. There are a number of pictures in the album including Big Bear Lake, Mountains, John Muir Seated, Camping, More Mountains, His House, A Teepee on his property, his wife, John with his wife, inside his house, and a number of other photos and cyanotypes and a water color.
Michigan Agricultural College photo album with the identified as follows. Marie Julia Tucker, Delia Triphagen, G.F. Prate, Mr. and Mrs. George Walker wedding party with Selena Smith and Nelly Smith, Mary McGraw, W.L. Wright, Harry L. Lomus, H.R. Smith, A.R. Rogers, Homer P. Skeels, J. Verne Kinsey, Mr. Abbott. Frank Lapham and Mason Martin (Pictured Above), Julia Tucker, Colletta Power, L.R. Wilson, Mrs. T.G. Lev and Ernest D. Partridge.
Ancestral Photos for Genealogists
