This clear carte-de-visite photo shows a Union infantry sergeant posed standing in a studio with one hand on a chair and the other holding his forage cap. He wears a regulation infantry enlisted frock coat with sergeant’s chevrons and a regulation wide sergeant’s stripe on his light blue trousers. There is no backmark on the card and it bears no tax stamp, dating it before September 1864. The corners of the card were lightly trimmed to insert it in a photograph album. Infantry sergeants ran the company on a day-to-day basis and in battle were posted with the lieutenants behind the front two ranks to supervise men in the sections in front of them and act as file closers.    [SR]

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