Camp of 5th Virginia Vol. Infantry, U.S.A., Falls of Kanawha, West Virginia
Date:
1864
Description:
Drawing of Infantry members holding a religious service. Caption reads 'Our Chaplain gives us a copy of this Engraving, to show our friends the way we sing and hold meetings in camp. He desires us to tell them to pray for us and him, that we may prove faithful to our country and our God, and not be found wanting in any day of temptation and trial.'
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.
Crossing Little Birch River to Bulltown, Va., now W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
Sketched fr. nature and drawn on stone. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862 by J. Nep. Roesler in the Clerks office of the District Court of the Southern District of Ohio. Printed by Ehrgott, Forbriger, and Co., Cincinnatti, 1862. Library of Congress Neg. No. LC- USZ62-17573.
Members of Co. A., 12th W.Va. Infantry. Standing: Philip McCleary Pelley, *Wm. Magers, John Trenter*, George Gossett, *John C. Crow, C.C. Mathews, Mahlon Geurin, Abram Jones*, Wm. H. Dorsey*. Seated on chairs: Alex Connor, Absolem Crow, John G. Jones*, John Robert Talbert, James Logsdon, Daniel Morris. Seated on floor: Timothy B. Baker, Bill Stein, John W. Edwards*. *= Decea.