Sketches of Camp Boone, The First Encampment of the Kentucky State Guard, 1860, Containing Original Salt Prints

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Sketches of Camp Boone. The First Encampment of the Kentucky State Guard; held near Louisville, from August 23rd to August 30th, 1860. Also, photographic views of the camp, and Portraits of the General's Staff. Louisville, KY: Published by G. T. Shaw for Garrett & Nickerson, Photographists, 1860. 10 x 7.75 inches, gilt-imprinted red leather boards, 27pp plus 11pp of salt print photographs of camp, one to a page.

Pages 4-5 are titled "Portraits of the Commander and Staff of the Kentucky State Guard," with page 5 have an oval salt print of Maj. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner at center, surrounded by 8 portraits of his staff, all identified in the corresponding places on page 4. Followed by 19 pages of text, including a history of militia in England, the United States, and Kentucky, followed by a roster of all officers as of Sept. 4, 1860, a description of Camp Boone, and a day-by-day account of the 1860 annual encampment. Next is an index of the 11 photographic views of the encampment, each a 6 x 8 in. salt print, including two overall views of the camp, a dress parade, guard mounting, the Governor of Kentucky visiting the tents of Maj. Hunt and Col. Tryon, and scenes in camp following the parade.

Within less than a year, many of the comrades in the photographs would be fighting against each other on the battlefields of the American Civil War. While the Kentucky state government officially remained loyal to the Union, the majority of the Kentucky State Guard sided with the Confederacy. Most prominently, Maj. Gen. Buckner was offered a command in the Union Army, but turned it down to accept one as Maj. Gen. in the Confederate Army, and many of his officers followed, most notably Capt. John Hunt Morgan, whose name appears on the roster as Captain of the company known as Lexington Rifles, which would also be the name of his famous Confederate unit, aka "Morgan's Raiders," and a crate emblazoned "Lex. Rifles" can even be seen in the final photograph, titled "Street Scene after Parade." Another photograph of a gathering of officers of the camp includes Mary Todd Lincoln's brother.

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