3rd Infantry, North Carolina State Guard officer photograph

[mysteriousoozlefinch]

Officer in an 1892 undress officer's coat, I believe from the 3rd Infantry of the North Carolina State Guard.  J.D. Brinkley was a photographer in Oxford, NC from 1890 to the 1920s at least.  Oxford was home to Company E, 3rd Infantry (Granville Grays) throughout the 1890s but they seemed to have a new 2nd Lieutenant every year.  From my understanding, the 1892 coat was replaced pretty quickly by the 1895.  Accounting that the Guard might lag a few years, my possible candidates before the Spanish-American War are the following.

 

• W.D. Lynch - 1892 (no further service)
• W.H. Booth - 1893 (1st Lieutenant 1894)
• H.L. Skinner - 1894 (1st Lieutenant 1895, Captain 1896)
• J.O. Ellington - 1895 (1st Lieutenant 1896)
• W.H. Brill - 1896 and 1897