Civil War soldiers and their loved ones posed for an abundance of photos to document their experience in the 1860s, although today there are often no names to match the photos, daguerrotypes, ambrotypes, etc. still in existence. In civilian life they became professionals, merchants, industrial workers, scientists, teachers, mariners, and community leaders. Some served again in the military. Millions of men joined local posts of the fraternal Grand Army of the Republic, beginning in 1866, while wives, sisters, and daughters formed the Women's Relief Corps auxiliary. The influence of these organizations in creating, building, and shaping veterans' benefits policies cannot be overstated. These men and women continued to document their lives and experiences with the camera. The last Civil War veteran died in 1956.
This website is dedicated to the genealogical history of the 3rd MA Heavy Artillery. I am always on the lookout for new ways to identify ancestors in publicly available images. Several of mine served in the 3rd MA Heavy Artillery, and I have been able to identify some individual soldiers by means of historical genealogical research in combination with photographs from their later lives. (I publish images in the public domain here, but link to other online images for which I do not own the copyright.) Starting with Co. F, to which my ancestors belonged, this site will document the attempt to identify more of these men so that their descendants today can see what they looked like when they were young.
Soldiers who have been identified can be found by clicking on their Company name, above. They are in alphabetical order. The names of those who left no descendants are identified by bold black text and the names of those who did leave descendants are in bold yellow/gold text.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Collection, LC-DIG-cwpb-04232.
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This website is dedicated to the genealogical history of the 3rd MA Heavy Artillery. I am always on the lookout for new ways to identify ancestors in publicly available images. Several of mine served in the 3rd MA Heavy Artillery, and I have been able to identify some individual soldiers by means of historical genealogical research in combination with photographs from their later lives. (I publish images in the public domain here, but link to other online images for which I do not own the copyright.) Starting with Co. F, to which my ancestors belonged, this site will document the attempt to identify more of these men so that their descendants today can see what they looked like when they were young.
Soldiers who have been identified can be found by clicking on their Company name, above. They are in alphabetical order. The names of those who left no descendants are identified by bold black text and the names of those who did leave descendants are in bold yellow/gold text.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Collection, LC-DIG-cwpb-04232.
NOTE: Try different browsers for optimal viewing of this site. My MacBook Pro favors the current versions of Safari over Firefox, for example.
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Last updated: 8/10/2018
Number of entries: 4 soldiers .... and counting!
2 nonmilitary.... and counting!
Newest soldiers: Musician George H. Batchelder
Lt. Everett Cephas Bumpus
Pvt. L. Gifford
Pvt. S. M. Teachman
Last updated: 8/10/2018
Number of entries: 4 soldiers .... and counting!
2 nonmilitary.... and counting!
Newest soldiers: Musician George H. Batchelder
Lt. Everett Cephas Bumpus
Pvt. L. Gifford
Pvt. S. M. Teachman