CDV is a waist up view identified from an album page as Henry G. Hall of Company H, 109^th New York Infantry. He is posed with his hands resting in his lap and wears a dark frockcoat buttoned only at the top, light vest and light trousers.

Contrast and clarity are excellent. Paper and mount have light surface dirt along the edges. Mount corners have been clipped and top edge trimmed.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for PALMER’S GALLERY…MASON’S ISLAND, D.C. Modern pencil ID is at top.

Henry G. Hall was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1845 and was a 17 year old student when he enlisted as a corporal in Company H, 109^th New York at Oswego on August 11, 1862. Hall was reduced to a private on November 15, 1862. At Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864 Hall was shot in the thigh and carried off the field by Private John Connelly and Corporal Barton L. Bennett. Hall later died of disease, most likely associated with his wounding, at Point Pleasant Hospital in Washington, D.C. on October 9, 1864. His body was returned to Pennsylvania and buried in Little Meadows Cemetery in Little Meadows, Pennsylvania.

While Hall was with the 109^th the regiment saw service at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania as part of the 1^st Brigade, 3^rd Division, 9^th Corps.  [ad]

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