Alonzo H. Sterrett, Late Adjutant, Fortieth U.S. Infantry

Photography Studio Hall & Company's Photograph Gallery American

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Alonzo Sterrett was twenty in 1861, when he enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served for four years, becoming a lieutenant by war’s end, when he sat for this trick double-portrait. This carte de visite bears one likeness of his present circumstances and one of his recent past. At left he poses casually in an unbuttoned jacket as a civilian; at right, wearing his old officer’s frock coat, he poses formally as the late adjutant of the Fortieth United States Colored Infantry. He had mustered out of service six weeks earlier.

Alonzo H. Sterrett, Late Adjutant, Fortieth U.S. Infantry, Hall & Company's Photograph Gallery (American, active Nashville, Tennessee, 1860s), Albumen silver print from glass negative

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Alonzo H. Sterrett, Late Adjutant, Fortieth U.S. Infantry, Hall & Company's Photograph Gallery (American, active Nashville, Tennessee, 1860s), Albumen silver print from glass negative
Alonzo H. Sterrett, Late Adjutant, Fortieth U.S. Infantry, Hall & Company's Photograph Gallery (American, active Nashville, Tennessee, 1860s), Albumen silver print from glass negative

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