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Photographer: Craig Swain
Caption: General Adelbert Ames
Additional Description: A native of Maine, Ames graduated from West Point just after the fall of Fort Sumter and went into service with the 2nd U.S. Artillery. He was the first commander of the 20th Maine (commanded at Gettysburg by Col. Joshua Chamberlain). Ames was promoted to command a Brigade in the XI Corps in May 1863. Later in the war, he was again promoted to command a division. Post war, he would serve as the reconstruction governor of Mississippi and later Senator representing that state.

[Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0879, Call Number LC-B813- 1728 A]
Submitted: September 9, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p34967
File Size: 0.039 Megabytes

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