State Military History Museum Seeks Public Help to Identify Civil War Tintypes
Historians hope genealogists can help name 45 Eastern Shore Union soldiers captured in rare framed portraits.
HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW
The Maryland Museum of Military History holds a rare collection of 45 individual Civil War tintypes showing Union soldiers from the Eastern Shore, each set in an intricate metal frame. Historians are asking military buffs and genealogists for assistance in identifying the men in the portraits.
Historians at the Maryland Museum of Military History are seeking assistance from genealogy enthusiasts and military history buffs to help identify 45 Union soldiers featured in a rare historic photograph collection.\n\nAccording to Maryland Matters, the collection consists of individual Civil War tintypes depicting soldiers from Maryland's Eastern Shore. Each photograph is preserved inside its own intricate metal frame.\n\nMuseum researchers hope that members of the public with knowledge of Maryland genealogy or Civil War military records can help match names to the unidentified faces in the collection.
WHAT IT MEANS
This effort offers local history and genealogy researchers an opportunity to assist state historians in recovering the personal identities and stories of Maryland Civil War soldiers.
Original reporting referenced by Everything Frederick:
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