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[Alfred Holt Colquitt, 1824-1894, half length, facing left; in Confederate officer's uniform. Col., 27th Georgia Inf.] – Historic Print

[Alfred Holt Colquitt, 1824-1894, half length, facing left; in Confederate officer's uniform. Col., 27th Georgia Inf.], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Alfred Holt Colquitt, 1824-1894, half length, facing left; in Confederate officer's uniform. Col., 27th Georgia Inf.], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Alfred Holt Colquitt, 1824-1894, half length, facing left; in Confederate officer's uniform. Col., 27th Georgia Inf.] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Alfred Holt Colquitt, 1824-1894, half length, facing left; in Confederate officer's uniform. Col., 27th Georgia Inf.]

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This portrait shows Alfred Holt Colquitt in a Confederate officer's uniform, identified on the caption card as colonel of the 27th Georgia Infantry. Colquitt, a Georgia lawyer and Democrat, later became the state's governor and then a United States senator, serving in Washington until his death in 1894. The card does not record when the photograph was taken, so the uniform is the main clue to its wartime connection. Viewers may find it useful to compare the pose and dress with other portraits of Confederate officers who later returned to public life in the Reconstruction and postwar South.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. 4820. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,041 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137468

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