File:Five unidentified soldiers in Union uniform of the 6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia outfitted with Enfield muskets in front of encampment LOC 5229239186.jpg

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English: [Five unidentified soldiers in Union uniform of the 6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia outfitted with Enfield muskets in front of encampment]

[between 1862 and 1865]
1 photograph : quarter-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 12.5 x 10 cm (case)
Notes:
 Title devised by Library staff.
Case: Berg, no. 1-188.
Additional information in collections file.
Photo shows soldiers wearing frock coats and standing at ease with their Enfield Rifles. An encampment is visible in the background. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010)
Photo shows one identified soldier, Albert L. Burgess, on far right. (Source: Similar photograph in North South trader, May-June 1983, p. 23)
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
Purchased from: Amoskeag Auction Co., Inc., Manchester, N.H., 2004.
Subjects:
 United States.--Army.--Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 6th (1861-1864)--People.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.
Rifles--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.
Format: Group portraits--1860-1870.
Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Tintypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Ambrotype/Tintype filing series (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650518
Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519
More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj
Persistent URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.27124

Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2271
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  • Civil War Faces
  • Best of Civil War Faces
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  • Veterans of the American Civil War
  • Civil War Page
  • Military portraits (pre 1930)
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  • American Civil War
  • The Civil War
  • Civil War
  • War Between The States
  • United States of America
  • U.S.A.
  • The Union
  • Union
  • The North
  • Yankee
  • Yankees
  • Soldiers
  • Rifle
  • Rifles
  • Enfield Rifle
  • Enfield
  • 6th Regiment Infantry
  • 6th Regiment
  • Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
  • M.V.M
  • The Old Sixth
  • Old Sixth
  • Militia
  • Volunteers

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