[CIVIL WAR - BURNSIDE, Ambrose (1824-1881)]. [GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882), attrib.]. Photograph of Colonel Ambrose Burnside and Staff of 1st Rhode Island Infantry, 1861.

13 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (sight) albumen photograph, matted, and framed, 26 x 22 1/2 in. (very good condition, unexamined outside frame). An outdoor view featuring Colonel Ambrose E. Burnside seated at center in the midst of a group of officers and non-commissioned officers before a building featuring signs that read, "Col. Burnside," and "Welcome Home." Additional subjects include Major Joseph P. Balch at left, and Augustus Woodbury at right, the regiment's chaplain who later wrote A Narrative of the Campaign of the First Rhode Island Regiment, which was published in Providence in 1862. Captain and Commissary Officer William L. Bowers stands at far right. Information regarding the photograph obtained from the article entitled "Red Blankets & Blue Blouses: Faces of Rhode Island’s First Responders, April-June 1861," published in Military Images, 3 December 2017.

Provenance: Andrew Burgess Collection (consignor notes). Andrew Burgess (1837-1908) joined Mathew Brady as an apprentice in 1855 and partnered with him in 1863. During his time with Brady, Burgess documented the Southern United States near the end of the Civil War and ventured to Mexico City to record war between Benito Juarez and Emperor Maximilian.

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[CIVIL WAR - BURNSIDE, Ambrose (1824-1881)]. [GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882), attrib.]. Photograph of Colonel Ambrose Burnside and Staff of 1st Rhode Island Infantry, 1861.

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