Description
This identified gem tintype is of Pvt. A.G. Burrows of the 1st Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. Alvah G. Burrows, a currier, aged twenty-three years (b. ME), registered for the Class I military draft in South Danvers, MA, in June 1863. He entered military service with the Salem Cadets Massachusetts Infantry in 1862, under the nom-de-guerre Charles Andrews. He served also with Battery E of the First Pennsylvania Light Artillery.