Original Listing Description

CDV ALBUM CONTAINING 32 CIVIL WAR SOLDIER PHOTOS, MICHIGAN 10TH INFANTRY. Nearly all of the soldiers depicted are from the 10th Michigan Infantry and album comes with a copy of Vol. 10, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861-1865. Many of the soldiers have been checked off where their entries appear. The soldiers are identified in writing at the bottom of most album pages and most of the notations are done in the same hand. These are as follows: 1) Major General Rosecrans 2) Brigadier General James D. Morgan 3) Colonel Charles M. Lum "Lum Gaurds" 4) Lieutenant Colonel Christopher J. Dickerson 5) Captain Henry S. Burnett, Company A (This appears to be an autographed photo) 6) Captain Bradford Cook 7) First Lieutenant DeWitt C. Welling 8) Captain James Stewart 9) Second Lieutenant Maxwell G. Cooky 10)--loose picture--First Sergeant Owen C. Corbett, Company E 11) Lieutenant George A. Allen, Company C 12) Sergeant William C. Clark, Company H 13) Corporal Robert B. Miner 14) Surgeon David W. Vandenberg (Revenue Stamp) 15) Lieutenant Edwin F. Holmes (Revenue Stamp) 16) Captain Alva A. Collins (Revenue Stamp) 17) Lieutenant Fletcher W. Hewes, Company D 18) Commissary Sergeant John G. Allport (Orderly for Colonel Lum 10/53-8/64) 19) Captain Rudolph Papst (Revenue Stamp, Dated Sept. 1864) 20) Surgeon Jonathan S. Rouse (Revenue Stamp) 21) Captain Henry Wideman (Revenue Stamp, Dated 1865) 22) Captain James Dwight 23) Lieutenant Warren G. Nelson 24) Second Lieutenant Charles P. Rice (Dated 1866) 25) Sergeant Marcus P. Andrews 26) Captain J. Deloss Jewell, Company D 27)--loose picture Captain Eslie R. Redfield 28) Second Lieutenant William B. Pratt 29) Private Silas Crawford, Company B 30) Stanley G. Smith, Company E 31) Captain Samuel S. Tower, Company A 32) First Lieutenant George A. Aplin, Company I There is a loose page from a bible that was in the RECORD BOOK, and this page contains information describing J.D. Jewell (see #26 on list) as Grandpa with other references to surname of Selfe, which is relevant to some of the other militaria items recently listed on my store. I suspect that this was Jewell's personal album of photos of fellow Civil War veterans. This is an unusual opportunity to acquire a significant bit of 10th Michigan Infantry history as it was found. In several days I will be making a separate post of documents relating to enlistment, commissions, and discharge of Delois Jewell, and many of these documents are signed by Burnett and Lum. Starting bid for that collection has not been decided yet as more research is needed, but our current estimation is that it should start at around $6k...however, more research will be done this weekend with an expected posting time of Monday evening...this has been included here as this lends credence to the suspicion that this album and the ribbons were personal to Jewell. Serious students of the 10th Michigan Infantry will want to atleast view the documents once posted. An additional post that is even more spectacular than the documents described above is a letter and map Deloss Jewell sent home to his wife describing the battle at Corinth, Mississippi. If anybody should have any doubts that the photo album in this posting did not belong to Jewell, those doubts should be erased by the presentation of this letter and the military document described above and also posted elsewhere. (Condition: Pre-Owned)

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