American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Seated studio portrait of Colonel Aaron Fletcher STEVENS, 13th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, holding his cap in one hand and looking ahead with a piercing gaze (light discoloration and wear to mount). Concord, NH: Kimball, n.d. Pencil identification on verso along with Kimball's pictorial imprint. -- Seated studio portrait of Reverend George A. OVIATT, Chaplain of the 25th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, featuring his cap with insignia resting next to him (heavy discoloration due to applied varnish/sealer, few surface abrasions, wear to mount). N.p.: [1862]. Pencil identification on verso. -- Seated portrait of an unknown soldier holding his cap featuring artillery insignia, Company F, 4th Regiment, and what appears to be a piece of paper in his lap (toning, spotting, surface soiling). Alexandria, VA: Bowdoin, Taylor & Co., n.d. Imprint on verso. -- And 47 other CDV portraits of men, women, and children, housed in a gilt embossed leather album with gilt embossed leather rectangle adhered to inside front cover bearing the name "Mrs. A.G. Stevens." (Some sections of pages fully separated from album, wear to spine.) 

Aaron Fletcher Stevens (1819-1887) served as a state legislator and helped to found the Republican Party in New Hampshire before the Civil War broke out. He enlisted as a major in April of 1861 and served in that capacity in the 1st New Hampshire Infantry Regiment for about three months before joining the 13th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment as a colonel about a year later in September of 1862. He was wounded twice while serving with the 13th, once at Cold Harbor and once at Fort Harrison, and was breveted a brigadier general in March of 1865 before mustering out that June. Stevens went on to serve two terms in the US House of Representatives from 1867-1871.