GEM SIZED TINTYPE OF THREE TIME WOUNDED 4TH VERMONT CORPORAL

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Item Code: P13500

This gem sized tintype comes in a CDV size paper frame.

The image shows Corporal John R. Ives (incorrectly spelled Ivers in some records) wearing a dark frock coat with Corporal chevrons and a 6th Corps badge on his chest. He is posed in front of a painted backdrop of what looks to be a landscape scene. Not much of the backdrop is visible. The bottom of the frame is boldly inscribed in period ink “JOHN IVES CORPL. CO.D, 4” VT. VOLS.”

The image itself is clear with excellent contrast.

Reverse is inscribed in period pencil at top “CORPL. JOHN IVERS CO.D, 4” V. REGT.”

A biography of Ivers written by one of his descendants and found on-line reads in part as follows:

John Ives was born in 1838 near Cambridge, VT. In 1861, he enlisted as a private, Co. D, 4th Vermont Inf. The 4th Vermont was formed on September 21, 1861 and was brigaded with four other Vermont regiments to form the famous "Vermont Brigade", which was assigned to the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac. John was present with his regiment at Fredericksburg and Antietam. The VI Corps arrived at Gettysburg in the late afternoon of the 2nd day, replaced the V Corps as the army's reserve, and was not committed to combat however Private Ives was slightly wounded at Funkstown, MD during the pursuit of Lee’s army. The regiment saw its hardest fighting at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. The Vermont Brigade lost 1,645 killed, wounded, and missing in this 16 day period, of 2,800 who began the campaign. One of the casualties was Private Ives, who was wounded in the left leg at Spotsylvania. He recovered, returned to the regiment, and fought in the Petersburg-Appomattox campaign. He is also recorded as having suffered a third wound when a bullet grazed his head during fighting in the Shenandoah Valley.

John Ives survived the war, and moved to Winona County, Minnesota, where he raised a family and lived for the rest of his life.

According to his obituary, he was one of Winona County's oldest Civil war veterans and had been a resident of the county for more than 50 years when he died on August 6.1920. The obituary states that he was born near Cambridge, VT in 1838 and worked on his father's farm and attended school in the winter time until he grew to manhood. He came to Winona shortly after the war and secured work on a farm near Ridgeway, MN. After marrying, he rented a farm which he operated for over 20 years. The family later moved to Wiscoy Township, Winona County, MN and resided there until moving to the city of Winona, MN. He was a member of the GAR and had been active until handicapped by old age.

Corporal Ives is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Winona, Minnesota.

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