[CIVIL WAR]. 3 CDVs: Bissell’s Missouri Engineers
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A group of three (3) CDV portraits of soldiers who served in Bissell's Engineer Regiment of the West: Vignetted albumen CDV portrait of Charles C. Wood. -- Vignetted albumen CDV portrait of Horace B. Hooker. -- Albumen CDV portrait of G. Louis Werth. -- Each with period ink inscription identifying the subject and with a later pencil inscription identifying the regiment. Each without photographer's imprint.
Charles C. Wood enlisted on 7 November 1862 as a 2nd lieutenant and was commissioned into Company I of Bissell's Engineer Regiment of the West. Wood was discharged on 3 February 1864 before the consolidation of Bissell's Engineers with the 25th Missouri Infantry to form the 1st Missouri Engineer Regiment. Horace B. Hooker enlisted on 27 October 1862, also as a 2nd lieutenant and was commissioned into Co. C. He was promoted to first lieutenant on 12 November 1862. He stayed for some time with the newly formed 1st Missouri Engineers, being discharged on 18 November 1864. G. Louis Werth enlisted earlier than his two compatriots, enlisting on 9 September 1861 at Cape Girardeau as a Captain, commissioned into Co. I (same as Wood). He was discharged 31 January 1864.
Importantly, in November 1862 the regiment participated in the Battle of Island Number Ten, with some reports attributing the plan to cut a canal to enable Union vessels to bypass the batteries to Bissell. They continued operations in the Western Theater including construction of the New Madrid Canal, the Siege of Corinth, work on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, a wrecking expedition on the Mississippi River, and the Siege of Vicksburg.
[Civil War, Union, Confederate, Early Photography, CDV, Carte de Visite]
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