This is a small (one image per page) carte de visite album. The condition of the album is not great; the spine is weak, a few pages have tears, and one of the brass closing clasps is gone, but it is an identified family album that includes a 15th PA. Cavalry image and other civilian images with Gettysburg backmarks.

The first cdv photograph in the album is of John Know Marshall. He is posed wearing his double-piped 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry shell jacket, his waist belt, with holster, cap pouch, and sword. Name signed in ink at bottom. Also in ink on reverse, “John Knox Marshall / Sergt Co H 15th Penn Cav.” No backmark. Corners were trimmed.

The second photo in the album is also John Marshall, signed and dated 1869. There are 21 additional civilian images, including a few tins. Of the other cdv’s from Gettysburg photographers there are two from Tipton & Myers, one from Tyson Bros., and two from Mumper & Co.

An endsheet at the back of the album is inscribed in ink, “Mrs. R.R. Marshall’s Album / Presented by her husband May 5th 1866”.

John Knox Marshall was born February 16, 1844 in Fairfield, PA. He enlisted on August 22, 1862 at Gettysburg as a Private in the 15^th Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was promoted to Corporal in March 1863, Sergeant in May 1863, 1^st Sergeant in August 1864, and 2^nd Lieutenant in 1865 although he was never mustered into this rank. He died in 1907.  [jet] [ph:L]

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