- Collection:
- Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room Collection
- Title:
- Carte-de-visite of Charles J. Smith
- Date of Original:
- 1861/1865
- Subject:
- Soldiers--Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America. Army--Uniforms
Confederate States of America. Army--Officers
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Portraits - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Carte-de-visite photograph of Charles J. Smith. Smith joined the Glover Guards from Jasper County in April 1861 as a junior 2nd lieutenant. The men called on military tradition of past years by naming their company in honor of Eli Glover, a merchant who raised a company of mounted volunteers tofight the Indians in the Creek War in 1836. Smith, however, decided the military was not for him, and he resigned at the reorganization in 1862.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:arl_awc_awc324
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/acclheritage/do:awc324
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Athens-Clarke County Library
- Rights:
-
