Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Ambrotype |
Title |
William Sellman Parran |
Catalog Number |
0985.13.02051 |
Description |
Sixth-plate ambrotype; man seated, facing camera, from waist up; hair parted on side, modified wave, full beard, thin moustache; wearing civilian coat; collar not visible, horizontal, slightly one-sided necktie, flowers in breast pocket of coat on right; oval gilt mat embossed in scroll motif; preserver has simple stamped foliate design; case is leather-covered wood, with gilt detail on exterior and interior edges; exerior has two raised bands around the entire case; obverse interior [cover] of case is lined in red velcvet; brass clasp and latch in tact; "WSP" carved into brass clasp; note with image reads, "Dr. Wm. S. Parran, Barboursivlle Blues, C.S.A.--killed at Sharpsburg" |
Medium |
Brass/Glass/Leather/Metal/Velvet/Wood |
Studio |
Unknown |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Event |
Battle of Antietam / Sharpsburg |
Owner Regiment |
13th Virginia Infantry, Co. F, "Barboursville Blues" or "Barboursville Guards" "Courtney Artillery"/"Henrico Artillery" "Capt. William A. Tanner's Co.," Virginia Light Artillery |
Provenance |
In 1859, William Sellman Parran organized and was elected Captain of a battery of militia artillery. In April 1861 he took his battery to Harpers Ferry to join other units organizing there. He was mustered into service there on 17 April as Captain, Company F of the 13th Virginia Infantry. He was ill with jaundice from December 1861, and resigned his commission - dropped from the muster roll of the 13th Infantry in April 1862. He recovered sufficiently to return to service some time prior to the Maryland Campaign, as Assistant Surgeon in Courtney's Battalion of artillery. He was on the field at Sharpsburg while most of his unit remained at Harpers Ferry. He was killed while serving as a volunteer gunner with an undermanned battery of the Washington Artillery (possibly Miller's, on the Piper Farm). |
People |
Parran, William Sellman |
Search Terms |
Barboursville, Virginia Battle of Antietam / Sharpsburg Orange County, Virginia |
Subjects |
Ambrotypes Cased photographs Casualties, War civilians dead persons Doctors Medical personnel Medicine Military personnel Photographic studios Photographs Photography Soldiers Surgeons War War casualties |