Menu Expand Menu Close
Back to Top
Filter Search Expand Close Filter
Search Expand Search Close
Pierpoint was originally from Morgantown, Virginia (later West Virginia. He was employed in Indiana at the start of the Civil War and enlisted in a Indiana regiment. His parents, also loyal to the Union, were still living in Morgantown. This cased image is probably an ambrotype.

Union Corporal Jacob Pierpoint, 19th Indiana Vol. Regiment

Identifier:
039207
Collection Number:
A&M 144
Title:
Union Corporal Jacob Pierpoint, 19th Indiana Vol. Regiment
Date:
ca. 1862
Description:
Pierpoint was originally from Morgantown, Virginia (later West Virginia. He was employed in Indiana at the start of the Civil War and enlisted in a Indiana regiment. His parents, also loyal to the Union, were still living in Morgantown. This cased image is probably an ambrotype.
Subjects:
Civil War--Portraits--K-P.
Personal Names:
Pierpont, Jacob.
Corporate Names:
United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 19th (1861-1864)
Geographic:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Acquisition Source:
Brand, Willa
Acquisition Method:
Acquired
Medium:
ambrotype
Projects:
West Virginia History OnView