Frank Goodyear, associate curator of photography at the National Portrait Gallery discusses an 1861 photograph of Ambrose Burnside and the Rhode Island 1st Volunteer Infantry, taken at Camp Sprague (near Washington, D.C.) by an unidentified photographer. Goodyear was interviewed by the NPG's Warren Perry on February 22, 2011.

Ambrose Burnside and the 1st RI at Camp Sprague (near Washington, D.C.), 1861

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Face-to-Face is a podcast series from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Listen to Face-to-Face portrait talks, interviews with artists, and lectures from the museum. Face-to-Face portrait talks occur every Thursday at 6pm, in the museum. For more, see the Face-to-Face blog at http://face2face.si.edu/ and the National Portrait Gallery's website at http://npg.si.edu/

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Ambrose Burnside and the 1st RI at Camp Sprague (near Washington, D.C.), 1861

Ambrose Burnside and the 1st RI at Camp Sprague (near Washington, D.C.), 1861