40 small portraits of the Officers of the 1st United States Veteran Volunteer Engineers arranged as a composite portrait within a hand drawn frame. Under each portrait is the name and rank of the officer. In the center is the largest portrait, that of Colonel William E. Merrill. The other officers in this composite portrait are: Lieut. Colonel Perrin V. Fox ; 1st Lt. & Adjt. Horace D. Olds ; 1st Lt. & Q.M. Robert R. Murphy ; Major Charles P. Huntington ; Major Patrick O'Connell ; Major James R. Willett ; Surgeon Alfred Edelin ; Assistant Surgeon Alfred G. Brown ; Assistant Surgeon George A. Haise ; Captain Charles E. McAlester (spelled McAllister by Bonsall) ; Captain Abijah A. Olcott ; Captain John Froelich ; Captain George Turner ; Captain William Lawrence ; Captain Henry H. Chandler ; Captain James R. Slayton ; Captain William O. Sarr ; Captain John Thomas ; Captain William M. Loughlin ; 1st Lt. George W. Wilson ; 1st Lt. Raymond E. Wiswell ; 1st Lt. Samuel S. Merrill ; 1st Lt. Harrison Choate ; 1st Lt. James Mullen ; 1st Lt. Philip Eichhorn ; 1st Lt. Joseph W. R. Stambaugh ; 1st Lt. Jonathon Cook ; 1st Lt. Charles Sinnet ; 1st Lt. John P. Brisben ; 1st Lt. Sylvanus Bartlett ; 1st Lt. Richard Good ; 1st Lt. John T. McMann ; 2d Lt. Henry H. Russell ; 2d Lt. Edmund W. Hunt ; 2d Lt. John C. McConnell ; 2d Lt. Stephen J. Houston ; 2d Lt. Robert M. Willie ; 2d Lt. George W. Marchant ; and 2d Lt. Charles M. Day. Below hand drawn frame: I. H. Bonsall, Art. Date from enlistment records as stated in Official Army Register of the Volunteer Forces, U. S. Army, Part VIII (1867), p. 120. From U S Corps of Topographical Engineers web site ( http://www.topogs.org/Engineers-1.htm) Engineers in the Union Army, 1861 - 1865, by Phillip M. Thienel: The 1st Veteran Volunteer Engineer Regiment was organized at Chattanooga, Tennessee on August 30, 1864, by Col. William E. Merrill, under the Act of Congress of May 20, 1864, which authorized the enlistment for three years of any enlisted man who had served or was serving as a pioneer, pontonier or engineer. The regiment served with the Army of the Cumberland. ... It never took the field in combat operations. However, in and about Chattanooga it constructed earthworks and revetments of Forts Creighton, Phelps, Putnam; and Redoubt Jones, and was engaged in such activities as building reserve magazines, the water works, and hauling and rafting lumber.
Type
image
Format
image/tiff
Extent
1 print : albumen ; 37.8 x 45.7 cm (14 7/8 x 18 in.)
United States. Army. Veteran Volunteer Engineers Regiment, 1st (1864-1865) United States. Army--Officers--Photographs United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel Merrill, W. E. (William Emery), 1837-1891 Willett, James R. (James Rowland), 1831-1907 Slayton, James R Albumen prints. (aat) Portrait photographs. (gmgpc) Composite photographs. (gmgpc)
Source
Isaac Bonsall Collection of Photographs. United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
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