Soldier's Record. Federal Guards. Company E, 28th Wis. Vol. Regiment. [Lithograph]

Book Description

Chicago: Charles Shober, Lithographer, 1862 Original hand-colored lithograph. 22x18 inches. Various lithographed scenes and 8 mounted albumen photographic portraits. Some damp staining to lower and left edges, 4 photographs a bit faded, else fine. An extremely rare hand-colored Civil War pictorial lithograph, being a "Soldier's Record" for Company E of the 28th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment. The primary illustration shows an American eagle with talons holding an American stars and stripes shield. Scenes show a battle between Union and Confederate soldiers, a naval encounter between ironclads, a soldier leaving his wife and child, the same soldier returning home to his family, etc. A listing, in three columns, provides the soldier's names of the entire Company, with adjacent spaces for "Remarks" (all blank). Small oval albumen photographs of the primary officers of the Regiment are mounted to specific spaces provided. This particular lithograph is very rare as few, if any, of these "Soldier's Records" are known with actual photographs. The photographic portraits include Col. James M. Lewis; Lieut. Col. Charles Whitaker; Maj. Edmund B. Gray; Capt. James R. Kenyon; 1st Lieut. William E. Bingham; 2nd Lieut. Charles J. Collier; and two unnamed privates. .

Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.