Bidspirit auction | EMANUEL, LOUIS MANLY. CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH.

EMANUEL, LOUIS MANLY. CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH. Full standing view in uniform. Wears corp badge. Holds chapeau. Period pencil identification on verso. Photog. J. E. McLees, Philadelphia. English-born Brigade Surgeon Louis Manly Emanuel (1834-68) was attached to the 82nd Pennsylvania Volunteers. The regiment took part in almost all the major battles in the Army of the Potomac. Emanuel rose from assistant surgeon to brigade surgeon. Highly distinguished at the Battle of Gettysburg. See Adam D. Mendelsohn, Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army (2022) p. 205.