More Civil War CDV's

[SteveR]

Here are 4 CDV's from an Ohio outfit.

15th Ohio Veteran Volunteers

The term Veteran Volunteer means that they had been in action and their terms of enlistment ran out and they volunteered again. A fact that they were very proud of and this designation signifies.

Steve

This fellow wears a cut down 9 button frock coat

Back of CDV

[SteveR]

This fellow appears to be wearing a four button fatigue jacket. It is hard to tell.

Back of CDV

[SteveR]

This gentleman was wearing a 9 button frock coat can't tell if it was cut down or not.

Back of CDV

[SteveR]

It is hard to tell what style jacket this guy is wearing.

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All of these images were acquired wrapped in a period piece of paper Identified as 15 Ohio Veteran Volunteers.

[SteveR]

The last one for today is a Confederate Corporal from New Orleans.

I believe he is wearing a 4 button jacket also.

Gentlemans signature. I'll be dog gone if I can make it out as you can see it is in pencil.

Back of CDV

[chrisdumford]

The fellow in the first picture is wearing the 9-button shell jacket issued by the state of Ohio and several other western states. There are many photographs as well as surviving uniforms from the western regiments in Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois that were issued this style of shell jacket. It differs from the New York issue jacket in that western jackets did not have shoulder straps or branch of service piping and had a different cut. This is truly a remarkable Civil war CDV and illistrates a variant uniform that was quite well represented in the western theatre. These were not cut down frock coats but were rather distinctive shell jackets without branch of service piping. The third picture appears to also be a shell jacket due to there being no evident piping on the coat. There are two pictures of individuals in 4-button sack coats. The individual that you believe to be Confederate is in fact a federal corporal. he is wearing a standard 4-button sack coat. Confederat uniforms, unlike hollywood's potrayal were remarkably uniform (to use a pun) in that western units were generally supplied with state issue 7-button front shell jackets with stand up collars, generally of a lighter gray hue or a butternut. The army of Northern Virginia generally had coats suppied by eastern states that were usually of a darker gray or were Tate jackets supplied from Ireland which were very dark gray seven button shell jackets. When Longstreet's corps was temporarily attached to Bragg's Army of the Tennessee, many of the western soldiers commented on how dark Longstreet's corps uniforms were. Some said that they could easily be mistaken for Federals. There are many surviving photographs of Federal soldiers taken in New Orleans because New Orleans was captured in 1862. The individual in the frock coat is most likely civilian due to there being no shoulder straps, or any officer's trappings (sword, sword belt or sash). As for volunteers. Almost every state regiment formed during the civil war was known as volunteers as the Union did not institute the draft until 1863, thus all regiments in the civil war generally were referred to by their state of origin, the assigned regimental number and were called volunteer regiments.

[Saskatoon Light Infantry]

The last one for today is a Confederate Corporal from New Orleans.

I believe he is wearing a 4 button jacket also.

Gentlemans signature. I'll be dog gone if I can make it out as you can see it is in pencil.

Back of CDV

 

 

What makes you think this is a Confederate soldier? The New Orleans back mark? New Orleans fell to Union forces in 1862 and it's common to see Union soldier CDVs with New Orleans back marks. This is a Union Corporal who is wearing a four button sack coat with vest.

[Saskatoon Light Infantry]

79th New York Highlanders.

[Saskatoon Light Infantry]

Company A (?), 23rd Massachusetts.

[Jeffrey Magut]

What makes you think this is a Confederate soldier? The New Orleans back mark? New Orleans fell to Union forces in 1862 and it's common to see Union soldier CDVs with New Orleans back marks. This is a Union Corporal who is wearing a four button sack coat with vest.

 

That is a tough signature, but I think it's Asa Ramey. If so:

 

Ramey, Asa, Corporal, age 23, resident of Vinton, native of PA, enlisted Aug. 1, 1862, promoted Eighth Corporal Feb. 10, 1864, Seventh Corporal Dec. 1, 1864, Sixth Corporal Apr. 24, 1865, Fifth Corporal May 10, 1865, Fourth Corporal, June 21, 1865, mustered out July 31, 1865, Savannah, GA.

 

Co. D 28th Iowa Infantry. (which was camped at New Orleans in 1864)

[Saskatoon Light Infantry]

That is a tough signature, but I think it's Asa Ramey. If so:

 

Ramey, Asa, Corporal, age 23, resident of Vinton, native of PA, enlisted Aug. 1, 1862, promoted Eighth Corporal Feb. 10, 1864, Seventh Corporal Dec. 1, 1864, Sixth Corporal Apr. 24, 1865, Fifth Corporal May 10, 1865, Fourth Corporal, June 21, 1865, mustered out July 31, 1865, Savannah, GA.

 

Co. D 28th Iowa Infantry. (which was camped at New Orleans in 1864)

 

 

28th Iowa Infantry, that's a very good possibility Jeffrey :thumbsup: