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Full standing portrait identified as Captain George Emerson of the 67th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Emerson would muster with “G” Company in October, 1861 and would receive promotions to both 1st lieutenant and captain by July of 1863. He would serve with the regiment through the battles of Kernstown, Winchester, Port Republic, The Seven Days and Fort Wagner where he would receive a slight head wound during the assault on July 18th when a ball glanced off his scalp. Remaining with the regiment, he would continue to lead his men through each engagement until wounded a second time at Ware Bottom Church on May 20th, 1864. This time he would not fare as well as he did with his previous wounding. Shot through the bowels, he would survive 3 days before succumbing to the wound on the 23rd. Emerson’s cousin, Taylor Shroud, who was serving in the same regiment, would write to George’s father, “Dear Uncle: I now take this opportunity to write to you a few lines to let you know how the boys are. Your Son, George, is dangerously wounded through the bowels. I do not think he can live very long. He has gone to Fortress Monroe this morning.” He continued, “I would like to have went with George and the rest of the boys to help take care of them, but I could not go. He said that he would get a Chaplain to write to you and I think you will get all the particulars. The last thing he said to me that he wanted his body sent home if it cost two thousand dollars. I hope you will try to get to him.”. This one is back marked out of Ohio with an applied tax stamp on the reverse.
