Civil War Soldier Tintype 6th Wisconsin Infantry Iron Brigade Unidentified

  

Sixth plate size tintype of an unidentified member of Company A, 6th Wisconsin Infantry, a regiment from the famed Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac. This soldier is posed in front of a painted back drop showing a small structure gazebo? He's uniformed in a commercial sack coat with large veteran re-enlistment stripes on the cuffs, and holding a hat decked out with plume, officer grade hat cord, large commercial 1st Corps 1st Division badge on the side, and letter A/number 6 on the front. According to research gathered from the 1909 book History of the Saulk County Riflemen, Co. Who re-enlisted in late 1863, however by the time of their re-enlistment many were non-commissioned officers.

The solder in the tintype wears no NCO rank and is likely a private. The full list can be found below, including their ranks at the time of re-enlistment. This can be used to conduct your own research to possibly identify this soldier. Henry Childs - Private, detached to 4th U. Light Artillery until 12/15/63 Frank Crandall - Fifer. Walter Durlin - Corporal Lawson Finton - Corporal. Franklin Fletcher - Sergeant/acting lieutenant. Henry Fordyce - Private Isaac Fort - Corporal, detached to 4th U.

Franklin Graham - Private, WIA/POW Gettysburg, WIA Wilderness (leg amputated). Francis Jenkins - Commissary Sergeant. Amos Johnson - Corporal Thomas Jones - Private, died of disease 3/64 Charles Kellogg - Private, KIA Wilderness. Samuel Keyes - Private James McLoney - Corporal. Nelson Moore - 1st Sergeant.

William Palmer - Sergeant Jesse Pearson - Private. James Whilty - Private, WIA Gainesville, South Mountain, Fitzhugh Crossing, Wilderness.

Elon Wyman - Private Image comes framed, matted, and glass-covered in an incomplete but original pressed paper image case that is missing the cover. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. The item "Civil War Soldier Tintype 6th Wisconsin Infantry Iron Brigade Unidentified" is in sale since Saturday, September 03, 2016. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Photographs". The seller is "artemas_cross" and is located in Charlotte, Michigan. This item can be shipped to United States.