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The 31st Virginia Regiment, Confederate Army, included mostly soldiers from North-central Western Virginia (West Virginia).

1. Encampment of Artillery Unit Possibly in Thirty First Virginia Regiment During Civil War

Wagons and cannons parked at an encampment. Note the laundry hanging on a caisson in the foreground.

2. Possibly Artillery Unit in Thirty First Regiment, Confederate Army

An illustrated portrait of Elmer Ellsworth, Colonel of a New York Zouave Unit in the Union Army. A favorite friend of the Lincoln family, Ellsworth was killed by a Southern sympathizer, May, 1861 in Alexandria, Virginia.

3. Ellsworth, Elmer E. Colonel, Union Army

Portrait of George R. Boush of  Old Point Comfort, Va., a member of the Restored Government of Virginia's State Constitutional Convention held in Alexandria in 1864.

4. George R. Boush, Alexandria, Va.

Bliss was head of one of the largest army hospitals for wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War.

5. Dr. Willard Bliss, Surgeon in Charge, Armory Square Hospital, Washington D.C.

6. West Virginia University President Daniel B. Purinton

7. Portrait of Male Brooke Family Member

8. Portrait of Male Brooke Family Member

9. Portrait of Male Brooke Family Member

Signed 'My dear Brooke. Very truly your friend, Virginius Newton. (Friends at University of Virginia Law School 1867-1869).'

10. Portrait of Virginius Newton

Inscribed on back, 'This baby was named for my father---but no kin to him. A. B. Harold. He was St. George Brooke Tucker.'

11. Baby Named after St. George Brooke with African-American Nanny

Inscribed on back, 'Friend of St. George Tucker Brooke at University of Virginia Law School and Confederate Army.'

12. Friend of St. George Tucker Brooke