Full length portrait of four Union corporals in full cavalry uniforms including sabers. Signed on verso: Robert Morris Jr., M. Edward Rogers, Charles F. Lennig, Robert E. Randall. Title from verso. Robert Morris is 2nd from left. Wounded & prisoner, June 9, 1863. Died August 13, 1863, Libby Prison, Richmond, VA Charles F. Lennig, resigned June 19, 1862. Other 2 survived the war. Description of uniform from History of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry (p. 59): In the meantime (May 1861) the materials for the campaign were being prepared, and it having been decided that the regular army uniform should be worn, the Company on the 23d [of May], marched, dismounted, to the Arsenal on the Gray’s Ferry Road and was fitted out, each man paying for his own suit, and marched back to the Armory carrying the bundles. The uniform was that of the U.S. Dragoon, and consisted of a dark blue cloth cap, with top falling forward and crossed sabres in brass on the centre; a full dress jacket of dark blue cloth, trimmed with orange braid; a blouse of dark blue flannel, and trousers of light blue cloth, reinforced with a saddle piece on the inside of the leg. The sergeant's trousers had broad, and the corporal’s narrow strips of orange brain on the outer seam, and their jackets and blouses had the usual chevrons in orange braid….The first drill in the new uniform took place on the following Saturday.”
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Photographs United States Civil War, 1861-1865. (aat)
Place
Philadelphia ( Pa.)
Source
Oversized Items United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
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