Name/Title
SouvenirEntry/Object ID
GHS 111Description
Shadow box type frame into which are several items. Frame is dark colored wood with gilded inset. Frame contains: at top, a bucktail with black, brown, and white fur. A photograph of a man with a long white beard on to which is written, "Melville H. Freas, Co. A 150 Pa Vol. Bucktail Regiment. Under this is the name of the photographer, "Lothrop, 54 N. 9th St., Philadelphia, PA, JUST BELOW ARCH STREET."
Written below this in script, "Four companys of this regm't was from Philada. A and B was recruited in Germantown in August 1862-when on Sept. 1st, 1862 we went to Harrisburg and two weeks later to Washington, DC and was mustered out at the close of the war. The other six companies was from McKean, Crawford, and Union Counties, PA. Col. Langhourne Wistar commanding the Regm't who was born in Germantown-In the 1st days Battle at Gettysburg, Seventy of Co. A went into the battle and at the close of the day, only ten stacked arms. 60 killed, wounded, and Prisoners" by M.H. FreasMade/Created
Place
* Untyped Place
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)Dimensions
Height
24-3/4 inWidth
12 inDepth
3-1/2 inMaterial
Bucktail, photograph, paper, wood, glassProvenance
Notes
GHS True Accession Book #111, "Picture in Frame with bucktail attached from 150th Vol. in Civil War, 1861. Loaned by M.H. Freas."