Photo provided in early 2005 by George Napjus of Maryland and Lithuania, a descendant of Irish immigrant Andrew Nolan. While he is not certain, he said "I believe it to be Ann (Burke) Nolan, Andrew's first wife, but the evidence is scanty and circumstantial. I have two copies of the already posted photo of Andrew in chin whiskers (see index on Photo Album page), an originial and a glossy, 8x10 enlargement. The latter is, shall we say, of home darkroom quality. They were not kept together. I suspect that the copy is from my mother's things and the original from my grandmother's things, which she inherited. Together with the original of Andrew, I found an original of this woman's photo, professionally shot, with the name of the photographer but not the city. The original of this does not match the original of Andrew, i.e. they were not taken together. However, with the enlarged copy of Andrew's photo I found an 8x10 glossy of this one. The enlargements appear to have been made at the same time. From this, I conclude that someone had mentally grouped Andrew and this woman together. If so, the woman is probably Ann Burke Nolan. I am also influenced by the little I know of Ann's nature. Photos can give clues about a person's personality. My mother's recollections of conversations she had with Chris Nolan late in his life, aged for another 30 years and dimmed by her age, would seem to match the unhappy expression on the face of the person shown in the photo. Chris remembered listening to his mother rail relentlessly about even little things while his father sat in silence, puffing on his pipe. Chris grew up believing from his mother that his father used the Civil War (he served in an infantry unit of the Wisconsin Volunteers) as an excuse to leave the running of the farm and the raising of the family to her while he loafed, and that Andrew had never actually 'been closer to a real bullet than a card game in Chicago.' There is no doubt Ann had her hands very full keeping things together while Andrew was off at war, but she was certainly not the only woman in America with that situation during those years (Andrew's brother, John Nolan, also served in the Wisconsin Volunteers). From Andrew's military files it is clear that he served honorably in the Army of the Potomac for almost the entire war, was promoted, and probably fought in one of the bloodiest battles of the early war (Fair Oaks/Seven Pines). It would seem that Ann was not a very happy person. That matches what I see in the photo."