G.A.R. - Burns Post

Name/Title

G.A.R. - Burns Post

Entry/Object ID

2014.009.001

Description

Print, photographic. Burns Post # 13, Grand Army of the Republic, Westminster, 1897. Shows 44 members of the Post, in their G.A.R. uniforms, on the steps of a building. Man at center of front row has a drum; Post flag is draped in background. Mounted on heavy board. Embossed "Krichton Westminster, MD" at lower proper left corner. Overall size 16" x 20"; image size 10.375" x 13.25". [acid-free copy of identification placed in folder with photo.]

Acquisition

Accession

2014.009

Source or Donor

Porterfield, Joan H.

Acquisition Method

Gift

General Notes

Note

Front Row: 1. unidentified; 2. Samuel J. Breighner; 3. unidentified; 4. unidentified; 5. G.W. Armacost, Hampstead; 6. John Wagner [Wagoner], Westminster; 7. Charles Baile, New Windsor; 8. unidentified; 9. unidentified; 10. William Lease, Westminster; 11. James Hook, Westminster; 12. Joel Ebaugh, Houcksville; 13. Winfield Drach, New Windsor; 14. John M. Reese, Leister’s Church; 5. Whitfield Stansbury, Hampstead; 16. David Frock, Pleasant Valley; 17. John Mitten, Westminster; 18. D. Howard Frizzell, Westminster. Second Row: 19. Thomas Cotter; 20. William Buchman, Hampstead; 21. Daniel Seipp, Westminster; 22. S. Wesley Blizzard, Westminster; 23. unidentified; 24. Charles Merryman, Tannery; 25. “Bud” Manning, Westminster; 26. Capt. Charles Kuhns, Westminster; 27. Peter Bowman, Tannery Third Row: 28. Isaac Belt; 29. Hezakiah Morrow, Roseville; 30. James Tracey; 31. unidentified; 32. unidentified; 33. Samuel Null, Westminster; 34. Lewis Ditman, Smallwood; 35. George Crass, Westminster. Fourth Row: 36. Henry Gorsuch, Tannery; 37. unidentified; 38. T.J. Hunt, Hampstead; 39. Henry Wardenfelt, Westminster; 40. Absolom Reese, Westminster; 41. George Pactrell, Hampstead; 42. Col. William McKellip, Westminster; 43. James Shellman Baer, Taneytown; 44. John McNeal, Westminster. [Names based on identification from an early photocopy of image] "The Civil War in Carroll County: 1865" exhibit, 2015.