Second Brigade. Brigadier General A. Ames

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1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; sheet 9 x 6, mount 17 x 11 cm (cabinet card format) | Photograph shows portrait of Brigadier General Adelbert Ames of 20th Maine Infantry Regiment and General Staff U.S. Volunteers Infantry Regiment, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for action at Bull Run, Virginia, on July 21, 1861.

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This cabinet card portrait shows Brigadier General Adelbert Ames of the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment and General Staff U.S. Volunteers Infantry Regiment. The photograph was made by John C. Taylor in 1862.

Ames was awarded the Medal of Honor for action at Bull Run, Virginia, on July 21, 1861. At the time of this photograph, he commanded the Second Brigade.

The circumstances of Taylor's studio work, the specific battle action for which Ames received the medal, and details of his service with the 20th Maine are not recorded in the archive materials.

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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