Sleigh-ride at Port Hudson, La. Friday Jan. 8, 1864

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GLC#
GLC05111.01.0015-View header record
Type
Images
Date
January 8, 1864
Title
Sleigh-ride at Port Hudson, La. Friday Jan. 8, 1864
Place Written
Port Hudson, Louisiana
Pagination
1 albumen print Height: 24 cm, Width: 21.3 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

A print of a photograph taken on January 8th, 1864, in Port Hudson, LA. Colonel Cyrus Hamlin [later made Brig. Gen]--son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin--sits in the small one-horse sleigh at left. Behind him are officers of the 80th U.S. Colored Infantry [originally the 8th Corps d'Afrique], a black regiment he was raising at the time. Title from ink inscription on mount. A pencil note at the bottom identifies the soldiers on the sleighs. Small one-story structures can be seen in the background as well as trees. A mounted albumen print.

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