Framed Civil War Ambrotypes CDVs & Detailed Letters
Current Price:
$10750.00
This is a truely incredible framed collection of Civil War ambrotypes and CDVs. It features 16 members of the 118th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, several of whom were related. One of photos is of Col. Thomas Young who went on to be Governor of Ohio. He took over the office when Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President of the United States. I have included below some info I found on the 118th Infantry and Thomas Young.
A very valuable part of this auction is 3 multi page letters from one member to his parents. The letters go in to great detail of the moves made by the company from one letter to the next and during the several days of writing each one. Writer Sidney F. Moore describes the movement, battles, orders and day to day life of the soldiers. All are dated and in good condition. (If you would like a partial transcript from the letters please let me know your email address so I can send doc attachment.) Letters are all safely sleeved for their protection and I have only handled them with gloves.
This collection came directly from the family and has never been offered for sale.
The frame itself measures 17" by 23". Frame is original and is good and solid. Family name is on the back of frame. It is however missing some of the decoration on the front as you can see in the photos. A few of the photos slipped down but easily returned to proper position when I tipped the frame upside down. One however proved a bit stubborn. as you can see in the photo. I did not try at all to coax it but believe it would go back in to place like the others did.
From ohiocivilwar.com:
One Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 908 men, Samuel E. Mott colonel, mustered in at Cincinnati in September, 1862; served in Kentucky until August, 1863, then moved into Eastern Tennessee; engaged in Eastern Tennessee until the Atlanta campaign, for six months living on half and quarter rations, without sugar or coffee, with corn counted out by the kernel, and salt by the grain; took part in the Atlanta campaign and then fell back into Tennessee and pursued Hood into Alabama; transferred to North Carolina in January, 1865; joined Sherman's army in the March; mustered out at Salisbury, North Carolina, June 24, 1865, 530 men, Edgar Sowers colonel.
From ohiohistory.org:
When the American Civil War began, Young volunteered for service. From September to December 1861, he served as a captain in General John C. Fremont's bodyguard. He then returned to Ohio, where he worked as the editor of a Democratic Party newspaper in Sydney for a few months. Unlike Peace Democrats, who criticized Abraham Lincoln's administration for going to war with the South, Young argued that the Union should be more decisive in fighting the war.
Young returned to military service in August 1862, when he received a commission as a major in the 118th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After serving for several months in Kentucky, Young and his regiment were dispatched to eastern Tennessee. Young was promoted to lieutenant colonel on April 17, 1863, and then to colonel on April 11, 1864. He participated in the Battle of Resaca, near Dalton, Georgia, where he led his men in a charge that resulted in the deaths of 106 of the 270 men under his command. Young suffered from poor health throughout the year and resigned his commission in September 1864. Because of his service record, President Lincoln awarded him the rank of brevet brigadier-general on March 13, 1865.
After his discharge from the army, Young returned to his home in Cincinnati where he decided to seek a new career and studied the law. Young passed the bar examination in April 1865. In that same year, Young entered politics for the first time and became Cincinnati's assistant city auditor in April 1865. In the fall, he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives. In 1867, he became the recorder of Hamilton County. He resigned as recorder the next year when President Andrew Johnson named him solicitor of internal revenue for Ohio's southern district. He served only one year before resigning. By this time, Young had joined the Republican Party.
Young worked with real estate investments over the next two years before returning to politics in 1871. He successfully ran for the Ohio Senate in that year. After his term, Young returned home and began to practice law once again. By the 1870s, Young was a well-respected figure within Ohio's Republican Party. When Rutherford B. Hayes ran for governor in 1875, the Republicans chose Young as the party's candidate for lieutenant governor. Both men were elected. When Hayes resigned to become President of the United States, Young became Ohio's thirty-third governor.
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