CDV image shows Edward A. Chandler of Company F, 3rd Vermont standing with sword drawn at “PARADE REST.” Chandler is posed between a chair and a tasseled curtain. He wears a dark commercially manufactured five-button sack coat with light trousers. At his waist is his sword belt with rectangular sword belt plate and sash. Attached to the belt is the empty scabbard for his Model 1850 Foot Officer’s sword which is being held point down in front of him.

The image is bright and clear with good contrast. The top edge of the paper appears to be creased. The shape of the crease matches the arc you find in a CDV album page.

The reverse has a period pencil inscription that reads “LIEUT. CHANDLER / E. A. F 3rd VT.”

A genealogy site on the web has the following biography:

“Edward A. Chandler, son of David and Mary A. (Bowman) Chandler, who were of staunch New England stock, tracing their ancestry on both sides to the earliest settlers in Roxbury and Watertown, Mass., was born in Pomfret, Vt., September 16, 1856. He entered University and remained until the Civil War broke out, when with others of his class he entered the service of the state of Vermont as drill master and was commissioned second lieutenant in Company F, Third Vermont Infantry, and soon went to the front. His regiment was a part of the Sixth Corps of the Army of the Potomac, and suffered heavy loss in the battle of Lee's Mills, Va., April 16, 1862. Lieutenant Chandler was then wounded in his hand and thigh, and was never fit for active duty again, but served as recruiting officer at Brattleboro, Vt., and on court martial duty at Baltimore, Md.; was promoted to first lieutenant.

He was assigned to the Freedmen's Bureau at the close of the war, where he continued until 1868, when he left the service and settled in Redwood Falls, Minn., where he first took up a claim of government land, and then, as the town grew, he went into business, being identified with the town in all its interests. Was also county auditor for several years, and well known through all that section. He died in April, 1886, a leading citizen, a popular man, and greatly mourned by the community. He was a Knight Templar, and the Redwood Commandery had charge of the funeral services, which had (the largest attendance of any hitherto held in town.)

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