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For unidentified soldiers (the majority of those included in the Liljenquist Family Collection), insignia on hats, buttons, coats, and belt buckles may provide information about the various regiments in which the soldiers served. Yet soldiers frequently did not wear regulation uniforms, and what can be observed in the images is often reversed because ambrotypes and tintypes are direct positives or mirror images. What the Library does know about most of the Union and Confederate designations is based on information received with a photograph when it was purchased by the Liljenquists or from information they received from the Civil War community, including specific information about weapons. The Library continues to update its catalog records as more is learned about the photographs.

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  • Unidentified soldier wearing a Volunteer Maine Militia belt plate. Sixth-plate tintype. Liljenquist Family Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
    [Digital ID # ppmsca-26868]

  • Unidentified soldier in Union uniform wearing an "Ohio" kepi (military cap). Sixth-plate, hand-colored ambrotype. Liljenquist Family Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
    [Digital ID # ppmsca-26906]

  • Unidentified soldier in Confederate shell jacket with "I" buttons. Sixth-plate, hand-colored ambrotype. Liljenquist Family Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
    [Digital ID # ppmsca-27175]

  • Unidentified soldier in Union first lieutenant's uniform with the badge of the 14th Corps Army of the Potomac. Sixth-plate, hand-colored ambrotype. Liljenquist Family Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
    [Digital ID # ppmsca-27060]

  • Two Unidentified soldiers in non-regulation Confederate uniforms with single shot pistol and Ben McCulloch Colt revolver (issued to Confederate troops from Texas). Half-plate, hand-colored ambrotype. Liljenquist Family Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
    [Digital ID # ppmsca-27551]

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