Captain James L. Rickards
date: label: date made
content: 1862
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Rickards, James L.
label: maker
content: Garrett's
notes: label: Description
content: Captain James L. Rickards, carte-de-visite, by Garrett's, Wilmington, Delaware, c. 1862
label: Description
content: James L. Rickards served with the 1st Delaware Volunteers. On April 1, 1862, he was promoted from Company B to be captain of Company C. During the Battle of Antietam in Maryland on September 17, 1862, Rickards was killed. With Smyth (cat. #3955W), Postles (cat. #3855J), McAllister (cat. #3955P), and other fellow soldiers, Rickards was able to hold the front line for a considerable amount of time, but unfortunately this is where the war ended for him.
label: Description
content: James Rickards did not believe in killing a wounded enemy. While he was on the front lines, an injured Confederate soldier approached. A Sergeant Dunn rose to kill him, but Rickards would not let Dunn shoot him, shouting, “You wouldn’t shoot a wounded man!” The injured Confederate soldier fired upon Rickards, killing him almost instantly. The soldier was then taken down in a fury of bullet fire.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Delaware, Wilmington
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Battle of Antietam, 1862
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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.003955JJ
label: catalog number
content: 3955JJ
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