ANTIQUE CIVIL WAR STEVENS LIBBY PRISON CT VOL 14th RGMT CO F GETTYSBURG TINTYPE

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A rare tintype in a 19th century hard wood carving measuring approximately 9 1/2 inches long and 2 1/4 inches for the carving and visual tintype respectively. See attached information. Unknown if Stevens or friend of Stevens regardless a storied regiment who served at major battles including Antietam and Gettysburg. Probably wearing a GAR ribbon. Could only find Stevens in Co. C on NPS database. Northeast origin. Thanks for looking. History of the Fourteenth Regiment C.V. Infantry. Written By Rev. Henry S. Stevens, Late Chaplain of The Fourteenth Connecticut Volunteers. ??The organization of the Fourteenth Regiment began under the order promulgated May 22, 1862, to furnish Connecticut ??s contingent of the fifty thousand men called for by the War Department at Washington to go into ??Camp of Instruction ? at Annapolis, Md. Recruiting for the regiment began at once, but progressed slowly until, in July, after the Union reverses on the Peninsula, the President called for three hundred thousand volunteers for three years or the war, when it received a tremendous impulse and the regiment filled up rapidly, being the first one to complete its organization under that call. It was recruited from the State at large, having its rendezvous, named ??Camp Foote, ? at Hartford. August 23, 1862, the regiment was mustered into the United States service, and on the 25th, one thousand and fifteen strong, under command of Dwight Morris, left the State, reaching Washington and crossing the Potomac to Arlington, Va., on the 28th. The next morning it went by forced march to Fort Ethan Allen, near Chain Bridge Va., remaining there holding the defenses during the alarm caused by the second battle of Bull Run, until September 7th, when, having been taken with two other new regiments to form the Second Brigade of the Third Division, Second Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, it entered on the Maryland campaign, the whole army moving in pursuit of Lee. On the 17th this new regiment was plunged into the battle of Antietam, losing heavily, but winning the encomium of ??behaving like veterans. ? The scene of its engagement was the Roulette farm and near the ??Sunken Road, ? where it was engaged sharply for several hours, and under fire all that day and the following day. September 22d the regiment marched to Bolivar Heights, near Harper ??s Ferry, Va., remaining there for picket and special duty until October 30th, when it went down the Loudon Valley, Va., reaching Falmouth, near Fredericksburg, November 17th, and on the next day was sent, with the brigade, to Belle Plain, on the Potomac, for guard and fatigue duty. December 6th it rejoined the division at Falmouth, and on the 11th moved towards Fredericksburg, crossing into that city on the 12th. On the 13th, being in the division that first charged the famous stone wall at the foot of Marye ??s Hill, it left a heavy tribute of blood and bodies of precious men on the sanguinary field in front of the latter. The regiment was among the last troops to leave Fredericksburg on the evening of the 15th, returning to the old camp about two miles north of Falmouth. Here it remained during the winter and spring of 1863, doing picket duty along the Rappahannock, opposite Fredericksburg. The losses of the regiment were greatly increased during the winter by the death, or discharge for wounds and disabilities, of many officers and men. April 28th the regiment moved with the army on the Chancellorsville campaign, in which it again saw hard service and lost seriously. At night, May 2d, it was sent with the brigade to the right to check the enemy and hold the ground after the disaster of the Eleventh Corps. Returning to camp near Falmouth on the 6th, the regiment staid there until June 14th, when it started on what proved to be the memorable Gettysburg campaign. July 1st Gettysburg was reached, and on the 2d the regiment was placed upon the ridge where, at the center of the Second Corps, its brave men, the body no. Seller Inventory # 63907-4872

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