File:Private Ed Landvoigt of 1st Confederate Cavalry Regiment and two unidentified soldiers in uniform, one with sword LCCN2017648726.jpg

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English: Title: Private Ed Landvoigt (at left) of 1st Confederate Cavalry Regiment and two unidentified soldiers in uniform, one with sword. Note: Volunteered in Memphis, for three years, in Capt. Wicks Mounted Riflemen in early part of 1862. Was attached to Col. Clay King's regiment, which was under the name of First Confederate Cavalry, because of the regiment being three years or the War terms. Seen service at Perryville, Ky., Munferdsville, Ky., Shiloh, Lookout Mountain, McLemores' Cove, Chickamaugh, Tunnel Hill, Ga., Raid in Sequasha Valley, Stone river, and innumerable minor fights. During 1863 was "transferred" to various duties as courier to Gen. Wheeler, Gen. Bragg and other. In 1864, applied and secured a transfer to the First Tenn. Heavy Artillery, where served until captured. Was discharged at end of war at Prison Elmyra.
Abstract/medium: 1 photograph : hand-colored tintype ; plate 140 x 108 mm (half plate format), case 154 x 121 mm.
Date between 1862 and 1865
date QS:P,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Author Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs
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  • Title from item.
  • From newspaper clipping on original glass cover: "He enlisted in the Confederate A[...]at the first call for volunteers, serving through the [...]iod of the war. He was a gallant soldier, as has been attested many hundreds of times by those with whom he served. He participated actively in the great battles of Shiloh, Blackland, Fort Donelson, Farmington, Stone River, Shelbyville, Perryville, Lookout Mountain, Ringgold Gap and Fort Morgan, besides many minor engagements, and was among the captured at the latter place. He bravely followed Wheeler in his famous raid through Kentucky and Tennessee, and endured the hardships and sufferings of that cruel period, uncomplainingly and unself..."
  • Soldier's name is also spelled Landvoight in some records.
  • Case: Leather; fruit design.
  • Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073)
  • More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj
  • Purchased from: Kerry Elliott, Sharpsburg, Georgia, February 2017.
  • Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
  • Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).
  • pp/liljconfed
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liljenquist family collection of civil war photographs · civil war · prints and photographs division
Subject
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landvoigt, ed · (edwin) · confederate states of america · army · cavalry regiment, 1st · people · soldiers · confederate · military uniforms · united states · history · civil war · military personnel · portrait photographs · tintypes · hand-colored
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united states
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United States
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Portrait photographs--1860-1870 · Tintypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870

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