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Unidentified African American Civil War Veteran in Grand Army of the Republic Uniform

With two children, possibly his grandchildren  Goodman and Springer, Mt. Pleasant, Pa. Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress)

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The Liljenquist Family Collection at the Library of Congress

Contains over a thousand portraits of Civil War soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Known as ambrotypes and tintypes, many hand-tinted and most in their original photo cases, they are a vivid glimpse at the faces of people who fought on both sides of the conflict.

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Des portraits de soldats de la guerre de sécession

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Des portraits de soldats de la guerre de sécession

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Unidentified Soldier In Union Uniform (LOC)

Conscription In The Civil War:  “A rich man's war and a poor man's fight”

The threat of conscription as a tactic to secure more volunteers was applied systematically in the Enrollment Act of 3 March 1863, by which all able‐bodied males between twenty and forty‐five became liable for military service. But under terms of the act, conscription would be applied only to communities that failed to supply their quota of volunteers. As a result, most communities adopted the practice of paying a cash bounty to men willing to enlist. By 1864, a typical recruit could pocket as much as $1,000 in local, state, and federal bounties. Unsurprisingly, this system was flamboyantly abused. Numerous “bounty jumpers” deserted their units at first opportunity and repeatedly reenlisted, each time pocketing a bounty. The Union conscription system had three other bad features. First, although the draft law nominally permitted few exemptions, over 50 percent of Northern draftees exploited the exemption categories that did exist and thereby escaped service. Second, it was possible for a man to pay $300 (a year's wages for a worker) and avoid being drafted in any given call‐up. Third, a man could also gain permanent exemption by hiring a substitute to serve in his place. Both the $300 commutation fee and the hiring of substitutes fueled bitter complaints that it was “a rich man's war and a poor man's fight.” Draft riots and other significant disorders resulted, and at least thirty‐eight federal provost marshals were killed trying to enforce the draft. Conscription directly accounted for only 13 percent of Union soldiers, but by the last two years of the war it undoubtedly encouraged a large number of voluntary enlistments. 

[between 1861 and 1865] : ninth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 7.3 x 6.1 cm Case: Leather geometric scroll. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).

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Unidentified Federal. Source.

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Unidentified Soldier Of The 34th Indiana Infantry Regiment In Zouave Uniform

If you recognize a face from your family, a regiment, or a photographer’s painted studio backdrop, it can help LC with identification. [between 1861 and 1866] 1 photograph : ninth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 7.5 x 6.3 cm (case) photo lightened by TheCivilWarParlor

Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Case: Berg, no. 3-274 The 34th Indiana Zouaves were also known as the "Morton Rifles." Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (D066) Purchased from: Matthew Fleming, Milan, Ohio, 2011. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs  Published in: Military images. Henryville, Pa., March-April 1994 (XV, 5), p. back cover.

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Can You Identify Me?

Unidentified Soldier In Norfolk "Light Blues" Virginia Light Artillery Battery Uniform

The photo is from Tom Liljenquist — he and his family have collected 1,000 of these images and donated them to the Library of Congress. But the photographs don’t feature generals and other high-ranking officers. Instead, they’re images of the enlisted men who fought for the Union and the Confederacy during the war. And only a handful of the soldiers have been identified. If you recognize a face from your family, a regiment, or a photographer’s painted studio backdrop, it can help LC with identification.

[between 1861 and 1865] 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.8 x 8.8 cm (case) Rees, Charles R.,, photographer. Photo lightened by TheCivilWarParlor

Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Case: Berg, no. 1-93. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (2010:105-5) Purchased from: Bill Turner, La Plata, Maryland, 2011. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs  Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).

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Unidentified Soldier In Union Uniform With Forage Cap

Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection

Most of the people and photographers are unidentified, and LC wants to know more about them. If you recognize a face from your family, a regiment, or a photographer’s painted studio backdrop, it can help LC with identification.

[between 1861 and 1865] 1 photograph : ninth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 7.6 x 6.4 cm (case) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-war-photographs/

Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Case: Berg, no. 2-103. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: Lee's Headquarters, Fredricksburg, Virginia, 2004.

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