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My family has an old liphograph of my great-great grandfather with some sort of armed and uniformed unit. We dont know a lot about my great-great grandfather, other than he was of age and living in N.Y.C. at the time the Civil War broke out...but my great grandmother use to always say he was a German sharpshooter out of New York...weather he served in the Civil War or not she never could say. Well...if you look a t the liphograph, all of the "soidiers" are in uniform and color bearers have U.S. and New York State colors. Another interesting feature is the writing at the bottom, which is in German, that mentions the twenty fifth anniversary of something. The picture is dated July 1888,and when you do the math... 25 years back would fall around the Battle of Gettysburg. That would make sense if the picture were a reunion photo, being as most of the members of the outfit are elderly looking, beards etc. and they all have what appears to be GAR swords.
Anyway...I am greatly interested in this and if anyone knows of any all or primarilly German regiments out of New York City, info would be greatly appreciated. I have been told that Berdan's 1st U.S. Sharpshooters recriuted from the N.Y.C./PA area and had a large amount of German immigrants.
Well...info would be greatly appreciated and i am very eager to find out about my family's past.
-Eric James
Co. D, 5th Virginia Inf
Stonewall Brigade
Army Of Northern Virginia
My family has an old liphograph of my great-great grandfather with some sort of armed and uniformed unit. We dont know a lot about my great-great grandfather, other than he was of age and living in N.Y.C. at the time the Civil War broke out...but my great grandmother use to always say he was a German sharpshooter out of New York...weather he served in the Civil War or not she never could say. Well...if you look a t the liphograph, all of the "soidiers" are in uniform and color bearers have U.S. and New York State colors. Another interesting feature is the writing at the bottom, which is in German, that mentions the twenty fifth anniversary of something. The picture is dated July 1888,and when you do the math... 25 years back would fall around the Battle of Gettysburg. That would make sense if the picture were a reunion photo, being as most of the members of the outfit are elderly looking, beards etc. and they all have what appears to be GAR swords.
Anyway...I am greatly interested in this and if anyone knows of any all or primarilly German regiments out of New York City, info would be greatly appreciated. I have been told that Berdan's 1st U.S. Sharpshooters recriuted from the N.Y.C./PA area and had a large amount of German immigrants.
Well...info would be greatly appreciated and i am very eager to find out about my family's past.
-Eric James
Co. D, 5th Virginia Inf
Stonewall Brigade
Army Of Northern Virginia
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