Apparently a number of men of Company C of the 4th North Carolina had their portraits made by the same photographer on the same day. Here’s that of Private Nat Raymer. It is identical in pose and background to the one I found 3 days ago for Alfred Turner.

This photo, from his family, accompanied a collection of Raymer’s wartime letters to local newspapers collected in 2009 in Confederate Correspondent: The Civil War Reports of Jacob Nathaniel Raymer, Fourth North Carolina, edited by E.B. Munson.

A fine full-length photograph of Alfred Turner, 4th North Carolina Infantry as published by Greg Mast in his State Troops and Vounteers: A Photographic Record of North Carolina’s Civil War Soldiers.

Turner was captured at Boonsboro, MD on 15 September 1862, the day after the Regiment fought in the defense at Fox’s Gap on South Mountain. He was exchanged in November 1862, but never returned to his regiment.

This imposing item is a plaster bust of Leopold Blumenberg, brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers and late Major, 5th Maryland Infantry. Painted to look like marble, it’s in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Baltimore.

Blumenberg commanded the 5th Maryland at Antietam and was seriously wounded near the Sunken Road/Bloody lane there on 17 September 1862.

From his Compiled Service Record folder, here’s the casualty sheet for Private Ferdinand Abbis of Company C, 5th Maryland Infantry, wounded at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

This is Francis Alexander “Frank” Shuford, late of the 4th North Carolina Infantry, with his family almost 30 years after the Maryland Campaign of 1862, where he was made a prisoner of war. Left-to-right they are Alice Mabel, Frank, Carrie Lee, Laura Jones Harbin, and Fred Homer Shuford.

Daughter Mabel arranged for his government headstone in 1936 …

… but a War Department clerk inserted “44 Regt” on her application and someone in the Department got Frank’s year of death wrong, which is why his stone is not quite right.

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The family portrait above was contributed to his Find-a-grave memorial by user A touch of TLC in 2021. The photograph of his marker is by James Arthur, also on his memorial page. Mabel’s application for that stone is from Frank’s Compiled Service Record jacket, online from fold3.