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Description
Joseph F. Lovering, a native of Kingston, Massachusetts, was commissioned as chaplain of the 17th Maine Infantry Regiment on November 10, 1863, replacing Pastor Jeremiah Hayden, a Free Will Baptist, who was given a disability discharge.
Lovering had been minister of the Second Unitarian Church in Portland before joining the 17th Maine. He was mustered out on June 4, 1865, and was a clergyman in Concord, N.H., after the war.
About This Item
- Title: Chaplain Joseph F. Lovering, Portland, ca. 1863
- Creator: Freeman & Coffin, Nantucket, MA
- Creation Date: circa 1863
- Subject Date: circa 1863
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Carte de visite
- Dimensions: 10 cm x 6 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 2293, Carte de visite album
- Collection: Capt. Granville F. Sparrow Civil War collection
- Object Type: Image
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- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 17th (1861-1865)
- Soldiers--Maine
- Lovering, Joseph F.--Portrait photographs
- United States. Army--Chaplains
- Military chaplains
- United States--Civil War, 1861-1865--Chaplains
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