Summary Information
Title: Company E of the 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment Carte de Visite Collection
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1865Creator:
Call Number: WVM Mss 991Quantity: 0.2 linear ft. (1 carte de visite box)
- Company E of the 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment,
Repository:
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
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Archival Locations:Wisconsin Veterans Museum (Map)
Abstract:Civil War carte de visite collection featuring 98 identified men from Company E of the 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. The carte de visites, roughly the size of business cards, have a small oval photographs showing bust views of the men wearing sackcoats without hats. These photographs display the range in age and appearance among these men, some of the first to enlist in the company. Included are a majority of enlisted men along with several officers. Also in the collection is one unidentified carte de visite of a man, possibly of Company E, wearing a similar coat but with a hat.
Language: EnglishURL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.wvm-mss00991
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Biography/History
Company E of the 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was organized along with the rest of the regiment at Camp Randall in Madison in January 1862, though many of the men enlisted in the later months of 1861. Unlike many companies that were drawn largely from a single community or region in the state, the men of Company E hailed from several different areas of Wisconsin, including Milwaukee, Coloma, and Waupun. Following two months of training, the regiment traveled to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee where two weeks after their arrival they were one of the first regiments attacked in what became known as the Battle of Shiloh. Company E lost eight men in the battle and had fourteen wounded.
The 16th Wisconsin also saw action during the Siege and Battle of Corinth before spending a year serving guard duty in Louisiana and Mississippi from February 1863 through February 1864. In June 1864 the unit joined General William T. Sherman's forces in Georgia and fought with them at Atlanta, participated in the March to the Sea, and continued into the Carolinas until Johnston's surrender. Following the war they took part in the Grand Review in Washington, DC before being mustered out of service in Louisville, Kentucky in July 1865.
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of ninety-nine Civil War era carte de visite photographs showing men of Company E, 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. The entire regiment is not represented and the men in the collection are predominantly those who enlisted earliest. Carte de visite (CDV) photographs are roughly two and one-half inches by four inches, about the size of a business card, and were very popular around the time of the Civil War. Many soldiers had their picture taken before going off to serve in the war and sent CDVs to their family and friends.
The CDVs in this collection consist of a card stock backing that has a golden border around the edge on the front and the photographers name, Samuel T. Young, typed on the back. An oval-shaped bust view photograph of each man that appears to have been cut from a larger photograph is pasted to the front of the card. Each man is also identified with handwritten names on the front of the card. Some CDVs have blue stamped names on the back. The back of many CDVs includes handwritten notes giving details about wounds received in service and if the soldiers was killed in action.
The men themselves are all dressed in Wisconsin state issue sackcoats and are hatless. They range in age, complexion, hair color and style, and facial hair or lack thereof. This variation shows that wide range of men who enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War.
There is also one unidentified CDV in this collection. It differs from the others in that the backing is smaller and the photograph shows the man from head to waist. He is wearing a similar coat along with a hat.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Processing InformationProcessed by Russell Horton in 2006.
Contents List
Series: Company E, 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
Subseries: Company Officers
Captains
Box 1
Folder 1
Bassett, Charles H.
Box 1
Folder 2
Dawes, William F.
First Lieutenants
Box 1
Folder 3
Martin, James R.
Box 1
Folder 4
Pierce, Harrison P.
Box 1
Folder 5
White, Charles
Second Lieutenants
Box 1
Folder 6
Niles, William D., Jr.
Subseries: Enlisted men
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Box 1
Folder 7
Babco*ck, Erwin L.
Box 1
Folder 8
Bassett, Delos A.
Box 1
Folder 9
Bonnell, Edward J.
Box 1
Folder 10
Bronson, Alfred O.
Box 1
Folder 11
Bronson, Andrew B.
Box 1
Folder 12
Bronson, Oscar R.
Box 1
Folder 13
Burke, William
Box 1
Folder 14
Caldwell, Augustus
Box 1
Folder 15
Casler, Charles A.
Box 1
Folder 16
Chamberlain, Henry W.
Box 1
Folder 17
Confair, John
Box 1
Folder 18
Craig, Emerson
Box 1
Folder 19
Craig, John W. M.
Box 1
Folder 20
Crawford, John
Box 1
Folder 21
Crawford, Thomas B.
Box 1
Folder 22
Crawford, William A.
Box 1
Folder 23
Crouch, Jesse
Box 1
Folder 24
Dimmick, Ira
Box 1
Folder 25
Dow, Wentworth
Box 1
Folder 26
Drake, Francis D.
Box 1
Folder 27
Drake, Martin
Box 1
Folder 28
Dunbar, Benjamin Adelbert
Box 1
Folder 29
Dunbar, Thomas E.
Box 1
Folder 30
Dustin, Miles G.
Box 1
Folder 31
Ely, Henry D.
Box 1
Folder 32
Fay, George W.
Box 1
Folder 33
Ferguson, Robert
Box 1
Folder 34
Fisk, Samuel B.
Box 1
Folder 35
Gibson, Suel T.
Box 1
Folder 36
Hacston, George A.
Box 1
Folder 37
Harris, Daniel
Box 1
Folder 38
Harwood, John W.
Box 1
Folder 39
Hastings, Henry C.
Box 1
Folder 40
Hastings, William
Box 1
Folder 41
Herrick, Andrew
Box 1
Folder 42
Holcomb, Joseph L.
Box 1
Folder 43
Hopper, William
Box 1
Folder 44
Hugoboom, Hosea
Box 1
Folder 45
Hugoboom, Orrin
Box 1
Folder 46
Kelly, John
Box 1
Folder 47
Kennedy, Michael
Box 1
Folder 48
Keyes, John B.
Box 1
Folder 49
Knight, George W.
Box 1
Folder 50
Knight, Lewis E.
Box 1
Folder 51
Lane, James S.
Box 1
Folder 52
Lininger, Henry
Box 1
Folder 53
McDougal, Frederick Edgar McPherson
Box 1
Folder 54
McPheeters, James
Box 1
Folder 55
Milligan, Eugene A.
Box 1
Folder 56
Miltimore, Daniel
Box 1
Folder 57
Miltimore, Daniel O.
Box 1
Folder 58
Myot, Alanson
Box 1
Folder 59
Newcomb, Aaron
Box 1
Folder 60
Newcomb, Charles R.
Box 1
Folder 61
Northrup, William C.
Box 1
Folder 62
Norton, James B.
Box 1
Folder 63
Older, Delos
Box 1
Folder 64
Ostrander, Alexander
Box 1
Folder 65
Peck, Benson
Box 1
Folder 66
Phillips, Jason
Box 1
Folder 67
Phillips, William M.
Box 1
Folder 68
Porter, Alonson G.
Box 1
Folder 69
Prescott, Charles F.
Box 1
Folder 70
Proper, Perry B.
Box 1
Folder 71
Ransom, Miles A.
Box 1
Folder 72
Rickard, George E.
Box 1
Folder 73
Rider, Erwin L.
Box 1
Folder 74
Sands, Ira P.
Box 1
Folder 75
Seeking, James
Box 1
Folder 76
Shanks, James W.
Box 1
Folder 77
Shanks, John W.
Box 1
Folder 78
Sheldon, George J.
Box 1
Folder 79
Smith, Adelbert
Box 1
Folder 80
Smith, Samuel
Box 1
Folder 81
Smith, Thomas B.
Box 1
Folder 82
Sparks, Robert D.
Box 1
Folder 83
Stivers, Perry R.
Box 1
Folder 84
Stoddard, Asa M.
Box 1
Folder 85
Stone, Hiram L.
Box 1
Folder 86
Sturdipnent, Lewis M.
Box 1
Folder 87
Terrill, John, Jr.
Box 1
Folder 88
Thomas, Henry L.
Box 1
Folder 89
Thompson, Merrick E.
Box 1
Folder 90
Umbarger, James L.
Box 1
Folder 91
Van Kuren, Ebenezer H.
Box 1
Folder 92
Wait, Oliver H.
Box 1
Folder 93
Ward, Henry H.
Box 1
Folder 94
Webster, Alman
Box 1
Folder 95
Wheeler, Theodore F.
Box 1
Folder 96
White, William C.
Box 1
Folder 97
Williamson, George
Box 1
Folder 98
Wills, John P.
Box 1
Folder 99
Unidentified man
