Carlos Alvarez de la Mesa, Captain in the 29th New York Infantry

ID: 27 ~ Source: https://www.militaryimagesmagazine-digital.com/2018/06/02/most-hallowed-ground-summer-2018/ ~ Creator: Carte de visite by Joshua Appleby Williams of Lovell General Hospital, U.S.A., Portsmouth Grove, R.I. Ronald S. Coddington Collection. ~ Date: ca. 1865
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ID: Black and white Carte de Visite portrait of a white Union Army officer with a long dark beard, wearing a dark uniform with silver buttons, belt, shiny leather boots, and a sword in a scabbard.

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"Yesterday, at 2am, we left the camp to attack the enemy that was waiting for us 2 miles away. I didn't know what kind of luck I was going to have. I only knew that my battalion was the first to attack. God wanted me to be able to give you another…