Ambrotype of Thomas Bivin Creagh II.
Thomas Bivin Creagh II was born on March 22, 1842, near Suggsville in Clarke County, Alabama. He was the sixth of eight children of Gerard Walthall Creagh I and Eliza Ann Davis Creagh. He attended Greene Springs School in modern Hale County, Alabama, and graduated in 1857. After briefly attending bo...
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Thomas Bivin Creagh II was born on March 22, 1842, near Suggsville in Clarke County, Alabama. He was the sixth of eight children of Gerard Walthall Creagh I and Eliza Ann Davis Creagh. He attended Greene Springs School in modern Hale County, Alabama, and graduated in 1857. After briefly attending both the University of Pennsylvania and University of Alabama, he enrolled at the Western Military Institute in Nashville, Tennessee. During the Civil War, he enlisted as a private in Company D (or E) of the 2nd Alabama Infantry Regiment and then transferred to Company I of the 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment in September 1861. He resigned from the Confederate Army in December 1863 but was conscripted in January 1864, serving in the Quartermaster Department of East Tennessee and South West Virginia for several months before being sent to Alabama to make salt in Selma for the Confederacy. After receiving a parole in August 1865, he returned to Suggsville and worked as a farmer. Creagh and his wife, Zuleika Bugg (married on January 15, 1862) had eight children. In 1889, the family moved to Selma, Alabama, where Creagh worked as a debt collector for various businesses. He died there on December 28, 1928. Creagh sent this photograph to Zuleika in 1860. From the Creagh family photographs, SPP159. Ambrotype is 2.75 by 3.25 inches. |
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Ambrotype of Thomas Bivin Creagh II.Thomas Bivin Creagh II was born on March 22, 1842, near Suggsville in Clarke County, Alabama. He was the sixth of eight children of Gerard Walthall Creagh I and Eliza Ann Davis Creagh. He attended Greene Springs School in modern Hale County, Alabama, and graduated in 1857. After briefly attending both the University of Pennsylvania and University of Alabama, he enrolled at the Western Military Institute in Nashville, Tennessee. During the Civil War, he enlisted as a private in Company D (or E) of the 2nd Alabama Infantry Regiment and then transferred to Company I of the 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment in September 1861. He resigned from the Confederate Army in December 1863 but was conscripted in January 1864, serving in the Quartermaster Department of East Tennessee and South West Virginia for several months before being sent to Alabama to make salt in Selma for the Confederacy. After receiving a parole in August 1865, he returned to Suggsville and worked as a farmer. Creagh and his wife, Zuleika Bugg (married on January 15, 1862) had eight children. In 1889, the family moved to Selma, Alabama, where Creagh worked as a debt collector for various businesses. He died there on December 28, 1928. Creagh sent this photograph to Zuleika in 1860. From the Creagh family photographs, SPP159. Ambrotype is 2.75 by 3.25 inches.1860 circa1860-1869Creagh, Thomas Bivin, 1842-1928Still imagePhotographs; Ambrotypes; Studio portraitsAlabama. Department of Archives and HistoryAlabama Department of Archives and History cased photographs collectionLPP31, #324Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130EnglishThis material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.600 PPI TIFFhttp://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photo/id/35516 |
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