Title: Company E of the 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment Carte de Visite Collection
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1865

Creator:

• Company E of the 16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment,

Call Number: WVM Mss 991

Quantity: 0.2 linear ft. (1 carte de visite box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Veterans Museum
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Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Veterans Museum (Map)

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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: English

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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.

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.

Processing Information

Processed by Russell Horton in 2006.

	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	⇧
Box   1 Folder   7	Babcock, 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