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"Those fine fellows in Virginia are pouring out their heart's blood like water. Virginia will be heroic dust--the army of glorious youth that has been buried there."--Mary Chesnut
Are you sure this photo is at the Library of Congress? I'm pretty certain it depicts a company of the 110th Pennsylvania Infantry in the spring of 1863, and I have seen it attributed to the National Archives and Records Administraion.
As [one of our cavalry] passed by, the general halted him and inquired "what part of the army he belonged to." "I don't belong to the army, I belong to the cavalry." "That's a fact," says [the general], "you can pass on." Silas Grisamore, 18th Louisiana
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