American Civil War,Unidentified Young Soldier,Confederate Uniform,1861-1865,2

Title: [Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform of Company E, 'Lynchburg Rifles,' 11th Virginia Infantry Volunteers holding 1841 'Mississippi' rifle, Sheffield-type Bowie knife, canteen, box knapsack, blanket roll, and cartridge box]
Creator(s): Rees, Charles R., photographer
Date Created/Published: [1861]
Summary: Photograph shows a soldier in 1861, fully-equipped with a Model 1841 'Mississippi' rifle, a Sheffield-style Bowie knife, revolver, militia style drum canteen, box knapsack, blanket roll, and cartridge box. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010)
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Case: Leather pointed quatrefoil interior with floral embellishments.
Additional information in collections file.
Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj
Purchased from: Otterburn Antiques, Altavista, Virginia, 2007.
Published in: Field, Ron and Robin Smith. 'Uniforms of the Civil War,' Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, 2001, p. 151.
Published in: Hicks, Rusty and Adam Scher. 'Piedmont Battle Shirts,' Military Images, vol. XVII, no. 3 (November-December 1995), p. 10.
Exhibited: 'Lynchburg and the Civil War: A Pictorial Retrospective,' The Lynchburg Museum, 1996.
Exhibited: 'The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection' at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
Subjects:
Confederate States of America.--Army.--Virginia Infantry Regiment, 11th--People--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Confederate--1860-1870.
Military uniforms--Confederate--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Confederate.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Equipment & supplies--Confederate.
Ambrotypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870.
Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2010650215/
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