Nice clear image of a bearded soldier wearing a dark waist length shell jacket with an external breast pocket and dark trousers with a light colored leg stripe that is very thin. The subject stands by a chair with one hand thrust in his coat a-la Napoleon.

Contrast is good with light surface dirt around the edges.

Reverse has an ink stamping that reads “WM. BROOKE RAWLE/211 S. SIXTH STREET/PHILADELPHIA.” Rawle was a member of the 3^rd Pennsylvania Cavalry from 1863 to the end of the war. The stamping shows that this image was once in his collection.

There is also a pencil ID that may be in Colonel Rawle’s hand that reads “S. P. BOYER/1^ST LT. + RQM/3^RD PA. CAV.”

Samuel P. Boyer living in Philadelphia when he enlisted as a Sergeant in Company D, 3^rd Pennsylvania Cavalry on August 17, 1861. He was commissioned a 2^nd Lieutenant on September 6, 1862 and 1^St Lieutenant of Company C on December 1, 1862. Just before the battle of Chancellorsville on May 1, 1863 he was appointed Regimental Quartermaster, a post he held till being mustered out on August 24, 1861.

During his time with the regiment served in the Army of the Potomac and was involved in 69 battles and skirmishes to include the Peninsula, Antietam, Hartwood Church, Kelly’s Ford, Gettysburg, Wilderness and Petersburg.

After the war Boyer lived in Crawford County, Pennsylvania where he died in May of 1935.

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