Image is a bust view of Horace Davis wearing a dark frock coat with a 6^th Corps badge clearly visible on his right chest. He also wears a smaller badge on his left chest but it is a bit indistinct. Could be a smaller Corps badge or more likely and ID disc of some sort.

Contrast and clarity are good as is the paper and mount.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for T. C. HAYNES… ST. JOHNSBURY, VT. Top has a pencil ID that reads “UNCLE HORACE DAVIS. SHOT DURING WAR IN VIRGINIA.” The age of the ID looks to be mid-20^th Century.

Horace E. Davis enlisted as a private in Company C, 3rd Vermont Infantry on August 15, 1863. He was a substitute for a Mr. Monroe Goodspeed of Montgomery. At the time of his enlistment Davis is described as 5’ 4” tall with blues eyes, brown hair, and dark complexion. His occupation is listed as laborer.

Davis was wounded at the Wilderness on May 5, 1864 and again at Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864. Both wounds must have been slight as his online records show he remained with his Company after both wounds. He was finally mustered out on July 11, 1865.

Nothing is known of his life after the war.  [ad][ph:L]

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