9th plate ambrotype CIVIL WAR SOLDIER AMBROSE HARTSHORN

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9th plate ambrotype CIVIL WAR SOLDIER AMBROSE HARTSHORN Picture(s) and Description:

For your consideration is an original, circa 1850s - 1860s ninth plate (2 x 2.5 inches) ambrotype of Lyndeborough, New Hampshire Civil War soldier, John Alonzo Hartshorn. I found this in a large collection of daguerreotypes and ambrotypes I recently acquired in the Washington D.C. area. The vast majority are of unknown sitters, but this is one of a few which had some writing on the back. Scratched into the metallic backing, I can read "Alonso Hartshorn Killed May 5 Willia..." and the rest is hard to make out (see photo below). I believe this to be John Alonzo Hartshorn, who I was able to track down the following information about on Wikipedia: Hartshorn (pronounced HARTS-hurn) was born on July 14, 1840 to Susannah Putnam Hartshorn(1816–1903) and her husband, John Hartshorn (1811–1878), a deacon in the Baptist Church. The younger Hartshorn grew up in South Lyndeborough in a house at the corner of what today is Citizens' Hall Road and Forest Road. On May 20, 1861, he enlisted in the 2nd New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment, infantry division, and served as part of the Army of the Potomac in Virginia. On May 5, 1862, Hartshorn was killed during the Battle of Williamsburg in Virginia, becoming the second Lyndeborough resident to die in the Civil War. Harvey Holt, the namesake for the GAR post, was the town's—and according to Lyndeborough's official town history, state's—first Civil War fatality." "In 1900, the United States War Department offered Lyndeborough's Harvey Holt Post of the Grand Army of the Republic cannon to place in front of its local headquarters, Citizen's Hall, with the stipulation that the gift be considered a loan. The GAR post petitioned the town to allow it to grade a spot on which to place the cannon, and the town granted permission for it to do so on March 14, 1900. The post received the cannon in 1902. That year, a dinner attended by more than 200 people at Citizens' Hall, the GAR dedicated the artillery piece to the memory of John Alonzo Hartshorn." An intriguing little token of New Hampshire Civil War history. Shipping $4 in US. On Sep-02-10 at 05:43:20 PDT, seller added the following information: