"Guilford Andrews carried this women’s portrait, during the Civil War. He was a member of Company E. 43rd Regiment, known as “The Edgecombe Boys”. He enlisted at the age of 22, on January 28th 1862. He was mustered in at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh. He was wounded in the elbow at or near Bethesda Church, Virginia, on May 30th 1864. http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/totopotomoy-creek/maps/totopotomoy-creek-may.html He returned to duty in the fall of, 1864 was promoted to Corporal, on November 1st 1864. He was then captured near Petersburg, Virginia on March 25th 1865. He was a prisoner at Point Lookout, Maryland, and he was released on June 22nd 1865, after taking the Oath of Allegiance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Lookout,_Maryland
The daguerreotype (# P-275/112), was produced on a silver coated, copper 1/9-plate, but the cover is missing. The date of the image is September 26th 1863 at Orange Court House. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_county_courthouses_in_North_Carolina
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the image can be pick up from Lynette on the 3rd floor.
Guilford Andrews carried this women’s portrait, during the Civil War. The daguerreotype (# P-275/112), was produced on a silver coated, copper 1/9-plate, but the cover is missing.