Image Not Available

William T. Loomis

Date1862-1865

MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 3 3/16 x 2 3/16in. (8.1 x 5.6cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 3/16 x 2 3/16in. (8.1 x 5.6cm)
Mount (height x width): 4 3/4 x 3 3/4in. (12.1 x 9.5cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineThe Clifford T. Alderman Collection

DescriptionPortrait of a young man wearing a military jacket. He is seated with his legs crossed and his right arm resting on what appears to be a table with a floral tablecloth.

Object number2012.233.101

InscribedOn recto, lower left, in pencil, "Wm. T. Loomis"

On verso, upper left, in pencil. "3272/Wm T. D[?] Loomis / Enfield, 16th CT Co D / captured Plymouth, NC / drowned April 65 Potomac River"; lower right, in pencil, accession numberNotesSubject Note: William T. Loomis was from Enfield, Connecticut, He enlisted on 20 July 1862 and was mustered in as a private in the Sixteenth Regiment Infantry Company D on 24 August 1862. He was promoted to Corporal on 5 September 1863. He was captured with the rest of his regiment on 20 April 1864 in Plymouth, North Carolina. He was paroled on 30 November 1864. He drowned on 24 April 1865 in the Potomac River. (Ruocco 5/10/12)

Subject Terms

On View

Not on view