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[Civil War veteran Private Curtis Hix of Co. G, 2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment]

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[Civil War veteran Private Curtis Hix of Co. G, 2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment], 1890 (Library of Congress)
[Civil War veteran Private Curtis Hix of Co. G, 2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment], 1890 (Library of Congress)
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1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 165 x 108 mm (cabinet card format) | Photograph shows portrait of Union veteran who was severely wounded in the head on July 2, 1863 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

About this photograph

Private Curtis Hix of Company G, 2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, is shown in 1890, twenty-seven years after his service. According to the archive record, he was severely wounded in the head on July 2, 1863 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The photograph is a cabinet card, a popular format in the late nineteenth century. It was taken by M. E. Watson, identified in the record as Madison Ellsworth Watson.

The 1890 date places this portrait in the period when many Civil War veterans sat for formal photographs, often decades after the conflict ended. The Grand Army of the Republic, founded in 1866 as a fraternal organisation for Union veterans, maintained local posts that held reunions and memorial observances long after the war. Members wore distinctive uniforms and badges to encampments and parades, which accounts for the prevalence of late portraits showing elderly men in such regalia rather than wartime dress.

The archive record provides no further detail about Hix's wound, his recovery, or his life after the war.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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Cabinet Cards

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