The Liljenquist Family Collection at the Library of Congress contains over a thousand portraits of Civil War soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Known as ambrotypes and tintypes, many hand-tinted and most in their original photo cases, they are a vivid glimpse at the faces of people who fought on both sides of the conflict. Here’s a look at some of the images from the collection.
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