Image is a vignette view of Orlendo W. Dimick wearing a dark frock coat with a barely discernable vest underneath.

Image is clear with good contrast that is just a bit on the light side. There is one spot of foxing above the subject’s head and just the lightest surface dirt scattered throughout.

Reverse has a green 3 cent stamp and collector information in pencil. Image has a photographer’s imprint for BLACK & CASE … BOSTON & NEWPORT. Period ink inscription on reverse bottom reads “O. W. DIMICK / LYME / N. H.”

Orlendo Wales Dimick was born in Braintree, Massachusetts on September 3, 1839. At age 22 he was commissioned a 1^st Lieutenant in Company H, 11^th New Hampshire Infantry on August 12, 1862. At the time of his commissioning he lived in Lyme, New Hampshire.

The 11^th was assigned to the 9^th Corps and saw action at Fredericksburg, VA, Jackson, MS, Knoxville, TN, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor and Petersburg, Va. During the last named campaign Lieutenant Dimick was captured on June 17, 1864 and was confined at Macon, GA and Columbia, SC. While in captivity he was promoted to Captain on July 22, 1864. Eventually released, he was mustered out at Alexandria, VA on June 4, 1865.

Not much was learned about Dimick’s post-war life. Sometime after the war he attended Dartmouth College, married and lived in Watertown, MA. He died in 1919 and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.     [ad]

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