Photograph of Giles Waldo Shurtleff, 1861

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Title	Photograph of Giles Waldo Shurtleff, 1861
Creator	Platt, A. C.
Creator role	photographer
Creation date	1861
Description	At the start of the Civil War, Giles Waldo Shurtleff was commisioned captain of what became Company C of the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at Kessler's Cross Lanes, Virginia, in August of 1861. He was held in various Confederate prisons until he was exchanged a year later in August, 1862. Shurtleff was assigned to the staff of General O.B. Wilcox of the 9th Army Corps with whom he served at Fredericksburg. Although discharged to recuperate from illness in the spring of 1863, the following July he became Lt. Colonel of black troops recruited in Ohio and designated the 5th U.S. Colored Troops. Shurtleff remained with this unit to the end of the war and his duty included Petersburg, Virginia (June-August, 1864) and New Market Heights (September, 1864). He was wounded on September 29, 1864, after an attack on Fort Harrison, Virginia. Shurtleff and the 5th U.S. Colored Troops spent time on duty in North Carolina during 1865. He was brevetted Brigadier General before his discharge.
Subject (Art & Architecture Thesaurus)	portraits; captains (military officers)
Place (Thesaurus of Geographic Names)	Oberlin (inhabited place); Lorain (county); Ohio (state)
Time period	1860s
Work type (Art & Architecture Thesaurus)	cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Image source	original cartes-de-visite
Measurements	4 x 2 3/8 in.
Physical characteristics--additional	mounted on card stock
Collection name	Photographs
Repository ID	RG 32/3/2 Faculty, Staff, and Trustees, Box 27
Folder heading	Shurtleff, Giles W.
OhioLINK institution	Oberlin College
Copyright statement	Images provided by the Oberlin College Archives may be downloaded for educational use only by Oberlin College and the Oberlin School District. For all other uses--including reproduction in any media--permission must be requested from the Oberlin College Archives. Please see http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/using/services/application.html
Description sources	Oberlin College Archives finding guide to the Giles Waldo and Mary E. Burton Shurtleff Papers
Notes	Back: "Giles W. Shurtleff 1861; printed: A.C. Platt Photographist Oberlin, O."
Metadata creator/date	S.R. Richardson, 2012-02-23; R. Donegan

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