Year: 2024

It's a shame about the condition of this daguerrotype - but at least we can get a hint about what Dr. Robert T Royston looked like before the war. A…

At 18 years old, in March 1862, Thomas Calvin McBryde left his parents' small farm at Snow Hill in Wilcox County, AL to enlist in the Cedar Creek Guards, who…

In October 1861 Walter S Smith (1845-1919), not quite 16, enlisted with his father, 40 year old Punxsutawney tinsmith Steele Semple Williams, in Company F of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry;…

PHOTOGRAPH 166. Case of Recovery after a Penetrating Gunshot Wound of the Ascending Colon. Colonel Edward W Hincks, commanding the 19th Massachusetts Infantry, was severely wounded at about noon on…

Tompion: a plug pushed into the muzzle of a rifle to keep out dirt and water. This example, probably for an English-made Enfield model of 1853, made of brass and…