Sleigh-ride at Port Hudson, La. Friday Jan. 8, 1864
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0015 Author/Creator: Place Written: Port Hudson, Louisiana Type: Photograph Date: 08 January 1864 Pagination: 1 albumen print ; 24 x 21.3 cm. Order a Copy
A print of a photograph taken on January 8th, 1864, in Port Hudson, LA. Colonel Cyrus Hamlin [later made Brig. Gen]--son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin--sits in the small one-horse sleigh at left. Behind him are officers of the 80th U.S. Colored Infantry [originally the 8th Corps d'Afrique], a black regiment he was raising at the time. Title from ink inscription on mount. A pencil note at the bottom identifies the soldiers on the sleighs. Small one-story structures can be seen in the background as well as trees. A mounted albumen print.
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