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Description
John Martin (1823-1904), a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper, who began in 1864 writing and illustrating journals and scrapbooks about his life and experiences, drew this solider -- as people thought of soldiers "in the free states" before 1861 when the Civil War began.
Martin, on page 114 of the "Scrap & Sketch Book" that he began in 1864, described the soldier as wearing "a bear skin cap a fine red broad cloth coat a pair of fine black broad cloth pants a fine cotton shirt with linen dickey a knapsack empty and a pair of fine calf boots with either white silk or white cotton gloves with red stripes on the pants."
Below that on the page, he drew a soldier as "a million of men" discovered one to look like from 1861 to 1866.
About This Item
- Title: Soldier, Bangor, ca. 1860
- Creator: John Martin
- Creation Date: circa 1866
- Subject Date: circa 1860
- Location: Bangor, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: Ink and watercolor on paper
- Dimensions: 10.5 cm x 3 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1972; 1997.16.1
- Object Type: Image
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- Military personnel--United States--Maine--Bangor
- Scrapbooks
- Bangor (Me.)--History
- Clothing & dress--Maine--Bangor
- Martin, John, 1823-1904
- Uniforms--Maine--Bangor
- Diaries
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