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Fouth [i.e. Fourth] Regiment band. American Civil War 1861-1865.
Summary
Photograph shows Union saxhorn and drum musicians from the 4th Vermont Infantry Regiment probably at Camp Griffin, Langley, Virginia.
Photograph probably by G. H. Houghton, photographer of other photographs in this album and fellow resident of Mead's in Brattleboro, Vermont. Houghton worked as a photographer at Camp Griffin and in the Tidewater area of Virginia during the time that Larkin Goldsmith Mead spent there with the Army of the Potomac as an artist for Harper's Weekly and making topographical drawings for Brig. Gen. William F. Smith in 1861 and 1862.
In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], page 70.
Digitized, 2014. Funding from The Center for Civil War Photography.
Accession box no. DLC/PP-1975:071
The single best source for Civil War photographs is the U.S. Library of Congress, which holds the core collections of original Civil War documentary ... The majority of the ambrotypes and tintypes are portraits by unidentified photographers of Civil War soldiers, primarily Union soldiers.
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