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The Conversation: 1864
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 7:27am.
February 1864. Brandy Station, Virginia. "Headquarters, Army of the Potomac. Lt. Chas W. Wolsey with horse." Wet-plate glass negative. View full size.
Lt. Wolsey's military career
Submitted by Aleksei N. Kronstadt on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 9:57pm.
In a third-person memoir sent to his sister in 1897, Lt. Wolsey (Woolsey) recalls being commissioned "in the second year of the war" as first lieutenant of Company A of the 164th NY Volunteer Infantry, part of the Irish Brigade. He spent most of the war, however, attached to the staff of the Army of the Potomac as an aide-de-camp.
Re: Conversation
Submitted by Dave K on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 5:54pm.
"Can't talk much, I'm a little hoarse"
Beautiful Horse
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 11:49am.
Maybe a Morgan? do we know? The hooves look a tad overdue for trimming though.
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