This group of items belonged to Corporal Edward Lyman of Company K, 16th Massachusetts. Items from Edward and his brother William, who served in the same Company, were originally framed together. Unfortunately the lot did not sell so we have divided the ID and common items into separate lots.

This lot includes the following:

1. Red & white silk with a great paper label written in period ink that reads “HANDKERCHIEF- CARRIED BY EDWARD LYMAN DURING THE CIVIL WAR CO. K 16^TH REG.”  The item itself has moderate surface dirt and numerous scattered stress separations but still displays well.
2. Roll up soldier’s sewing housewife. Leather exterior with silk lining. Gusseted pocket for thread and pin cushions on cylinder ends. #6 size thimble w/inset storage area.
3. Wooden ring with an anchor and chain carved on top
4. Often encountered CDV of Lincoln and his son Tad. Back has printed “PRESIDENT LINCOLN. MASTER THAD LINCOLN.” Image is good but has light surface dirt.
5. Republic of Guatam coin dated 1847
6. CDV in civilian clothes of John H. Colligan of Company K, 16^th Massachusetts. Image shows Colligan dressed in a dark civilian suit posing by a chair. Written on the reverse in period pencil is “JOHN H. COLLIGAN Co. K MASS’TTS 16 WAR 1861.” Bottom of the obverse has Colligan’s name again with a printed photographer’s mark. Surface of the image shows some crazing. Colligan enlisted in Company K on July 2, 1861 and was discharged on October 25, 1862. He had subsequent service in Battery H, 1^st US Light Artillery from October 1862 to July 1864.
7. Unidentified tintype that may be William Lyman in civilian clothes after the war.
8. Quarter-plate ambrotype believed to be of William and Edward Lyman seated side by side wearing early war gray uniforms. The coats look to be shell jackets with cloth epaulettes. The collar and epaulettes have dark piping that also runs down the front of the jackets. Buttons have a touch of gilt. Trousers are gray and in their laps they hold gray kepis with a dark band around the base. Each soldier’s cheeks are tinted a rose red. Image has excellent clarity and contrast but there are several scattered spots of oxidation. Mostly around the subjects head and face as well as the upper left corner.

Edward Lyman was born in Massachusetts in 1840. He enlisted July 2, 1861 in Co. K of the 16th Massachusetts Infantry and was appointed Corporal on Dec. 1, 1862.

Edward was present for the fighting at Fair Oaks, Oak Grove, Glendale, 2^nd Bull Run and Fredericksburg. At the Battle of Chancellorsville he was wounded in his left shoulder and died of his gunshot wounds and Typhoid Fever on June 7, 1863. His body was returned home and he was buried in Newton Cemetery in Newton, Massachusetts.

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