Title: [Soldiers from Richmond Grays at execution of abolitionist John Brown in Charles Town, West Virginia]
Other Title: Young Confederates off to war.
Young Southerners at Richmond making light of war.
Creator(s): Dinkle, Lewis Graham, 1829-1906, photographer
Date Created/Published: [New York] : [The Review of Reviews Co.], [photographed 1859, printed 1911]
Medium: 1 photograph : photomechanical print ; image 19 x 14 cm, page 27 x 19 cm.
Summary: Photomechanical print from reproduction of sixth-plate ambrotype shows group portrait of soldiers at the execution of John Brown; most are from Richmond Grays (which became Company A, 1st Virginia Volunteers Regiment in 1861) including Robert Alexander Caskie, center with goatee; John Wilkes Booth, left of Caskie’s shoulder; and Aylett Reins Woodson, bottom center; also Lieutenant Julian Alluisi of the Virginia Rifles in shako hat at top right. Tentatively identified are Louis F. Bossieux, center right; Cyrus Bossieux, top far left; Charles D. Clark, top right; David Garrick Wilson, bottom right; and William H. Caskie, behind Charles D. Clark. Photograph was previously thought to be of Confederate soldiers during the Civil War (Source: Angela Smythe, 2016).
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-8908 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: Illus. in E468.7 .M64 1911 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
…..Title devised by Library staff.
…..Illus. in: The Photographic history of the Civil War : Thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities / Francis Trevelyan Miller, editor-in-chief ; Robert S. Lanier, managing editor. New York : The Review of Reviews Co., 1911, volume 1, page 145, “Young Southerners at Richmond making light of war.”
…..Photograph attributed to Charles Town, West Virginia, ambrotypist, Lewis Graham Dinkle (Source: Angela Smythe, 2016).
…..Identification of John Wilkes Booth front Antebellumrichmond.com, “Chasing Shadows 150 Years Old, Part II; Conversations Through the Glass, ” by Angela Smythe, May 10, 2014.
…..Original ambrotype in private collection in Richmond, Virginia.
Library of Congress item permalink
Smythe, Angela. “Has He Been Hiding in Plain Sight? John Wilkes Booth and the Richmond Grays.” Antebellum Richmond, May 10, 2014. http://antebellumrichmond.com/conversations.html.
Mike’s notes:
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