(CIVIL WAR)Portrait of wounded soldier Private William D

Sale 1907 - Lot 21

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Estimate: $ 1,400 - $ 1,800

(CIVIL WAR)
Portrait of wounded soldier, Private William D. Gilbert. Albumen copy print, 8x5 1/2 inches, with a Surgeon General's Office Army Medical Museum caption label affixed to mount verso. 1860s

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The caption reads "Private William D. Gilbert, Co C, 6th Vermont Volunteers, aged 50 years, was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864, by a conoidal musket ball, which entered a little below the middle of the thigh, and made its exit at about the same level...On October 12th (1865), he was discharged from the service, with three inches shortening of the limb, and awkward inversion of the leg."