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A simple leather wallet-style CDV album containing 16 cartes, penciled on the inside cover Benj. F. Shepard / QM Serg't 96th Ill. Reg't / Warren, Lake Co., Ill. Shepard's small collection of wartime CDVs includes: Maj. Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook, by Brady; Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas, by A.S. Morse of Nashville, TN; an as-yet-unidentified major general, by Wenderoth & Taylor of Philadelphia; a group of seven officers posed on Lookout Mountain, by Army of the Tennessee photographers Taylor & Seavey; a Taylor & Seavey view of the courthouse at Huntsville, AL; two views of the springs at Huntsville, by Armstead & Taylor of Corinth, MS; albumen carte by J. Carbutt, Chicago, of a lithograph of the Main Building of the Great Northwestern Sanitary Fair; copy carte of Gen. Rosecrans by C.D. Fredericks; albumen cartes based on engravings or drawings of Gens. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and two others; chromolithographed carte of Old Abe the War Eagle; and a CDV-sized tintype of an unidentified man in a coat and hat. Benjamin F. Shepard enlisted as quartermaster sergeant of the 96th Illinois on Aug. 11, 1862 and served in that capacity through the end of the war. His regiment was initially ordered to the Defense of Cincinnati, and in early 1863 was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland and sent to Nashville, TN. They spent the entire war in Tennessee and northwestern Georgia, participating in the battles at Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Jonesboro, Franklin, and Nashville. By the time they mustered out at Nashville, June 10, 1865, five officers and 111 enlisted men had been killed in action or died of their wounds, and another 125 had died of disease.