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Griffin A. Stanton collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries

Identifier

sc.0268.002_001.003

Description

A tintype of Griffin Augustus Stanton (1835-1889) of Johnson County, Illinois, with other members of his mess from Company B of the 15th Illinois Cavalry during the Civil War. Stanton is seated far right. Griffin Stanton was born in Barlow, Washington County, Ohio, on January 31, 1835, to William Griffin (1805-1889) and Eliza Olney Stanton (born 1814), both of whom were from New York state. The family later moved to a farm in southern Illinois. On August 7, 1861, Griffin enlisted in the Union Army at Cairo, Illinois, as a wagoner and was mustered into Cavalry Company B (later E. Carmichael’s) with the 29th Infantry of the Illinois Volunteers on August 25. He remained in Company B throughout his service even as his unit changed names until it became the 15th Illinois Cavalry. Stanton saw service in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and finally Arkansas before he was mustered out on August 25, 1864. The tintype is from Stanton's Bible and the identification states it was taken in 1863. Stanton records in his journal that he had photographs taken in 1863 but he does not mention they were group portraits. However, on March 8, 1864, he recorded that the mess had a photograph taken when his regiment was in camp near Helena, Arkansas.

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2021

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2021 June 20

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Keywords

Stanton, Griffin A., 1835-1889.

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