Image is a seated view CDV believed to be of William Allebaugh who served as a Captain and then Lieutenant Colonel of the 51^st Pennsylvania Infantry.

Image shows a Union officer seated in a high-backed chair wearing a dark commercial sack coat with shoulder straps and matching dark trousers with a thin light leg stripe.

Image is clear with fair contrast. Paper has browned through age and the mount has been trimmed and the corners clipped.

The reverse bears a modern pencil ID that reads “MOST LIKELY WM. ALLEBAUGH CO. C 51^st.” The subject’s mustache and facial features match closely those of a photo of William Allebaugh posted on his findagrave website entry.

William Allebaugh was born in Pennsylvania in 1825. He was commissioned Captain of Company C, 51^st Pennsylvania on September 14, 1861 and was captured at Spotsylvania Court House on May 12, 1864. He was confined at Macon, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina before being mustered out as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 51^st Pennsylvania on July 27, 1865.

After the war Allebaugh lived in Norristown, Pennsylvania where he died on March 17, 1880. He was buried there in Montgomery Cemetery.

The 51^st Pennsylvania was organized at Camp Curtain in Harrisburg on November 1, 1861. It served most of its time with the 9^th Corps seeing action in 62 battles and engagements to include Roanoke Island, 2^nd Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Knoxville, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, siege of Petersburg and Weldon Railroad. In killed and died of wounds and disease the regiment lost 12 officers and 302 enlisted men plus many others wounded but survived.  [ad]

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