Ethan's Peach Tree - A Civil War Blog

I came across this "tintype" photo while going through the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photos on the Library of Congress site.  Thousands of young Americans answered Lincoln's call to arms in 1861, not just as drummer boys or buglers, but as "soldiers of the Line."  Look at this photo...really look...sixteen at most, and yet, it was boys like him who saved our great Republic in its time of great peril.  I look at this tintype, into his face, and can't help but feel an enormous pride.

-SDJ-