Captain Richard Thompson
date: label: date given
content: 1864-08-03
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Thompson, Richard
label: maker
content: Gutekunst, Frederic
notes: label: Description
content: Captain Richard Thompson, carte-de-visite, by Frederick Gutekunst, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c.1860s
label: Description
content: Richard Thompson served with the 12th New Jersey Volunteers. He was most noted during the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, when the four companies of the Twelfth New Jersey Volunteers were put under Thompson’s command. During the battle of Reams Station in Virginia, he was wounded, but survived. His carte-de-visite is dated August 3rd, 1864.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Battle of Antietam, 1862
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Seville Collection
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of M.W Seville
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.003955T
label: catalog number
content: 3955T
label: accession number
content: 117896
objectType: label: Object Name
content: carte-de-visite
label: Object Name
content: photograph
label: Object Type
content: Carte-Visite
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 2 3/8 in; 10.16 cm x 5.9944 cm