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Ambrotype Photograph of First Maine Cavalry Civil War Veterans, c. 1860 | [Artist Unknown]Description
FIRST MAINE CAVALRY, CIVIL WAR, EARLY 1860s! Period American Civil War ambrotype photograph that was recently donated to our collections that shows soldiers from Eastport, Maine in the First Maine Cavalry of the Union Army. Photograph dates to the early 1860s. We’re not sure if all 12 men in the photograph are from Eastport, but eight are identified as being from Eastport. Left to right, unidentified, Ebed Shackford, James Williams, George Andrews (standing), unidentified (seated), James Stayner, Andrew Bibber, Hugh Thompson, Loring Bell, unidentified (standing), Charles Bell (seated), unidentified.