(CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Alfred Ordway, artist. Commissary Department, Encampment of the Mass.
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(CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Alfred Ordway, artist. Commissary Department, Encampment of the Mass. 6th Regiment . . . at the Relay House. Lithograph, 10½ x 13½ inches; slightly cropped with the loss of perhaps an eighth of an inch of the image on both sides, light toning. Boston: J.H. Bufford, 1861 The 6th Massachusetts, a 90-day militia unit, suffered perhaps the first fatalities of the war during the Baltimore riots of April 1861. This charming camp scene shows the regiment on garrison duty at the Relay House transport hub near Baltimore. 2 institutional copies traced; the copy at the Library of Congress was deposited on 20 July 1861.
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(CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Alfred Ordway, artist. Commissary Department, Encampment of the Mass.
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