CDV shows an officer standing with one hand on his hip and the other resting on the back of a chair. The subject wears a dark frock coat with 2^nd Lieutenant’s shoulder straps, a matching dark military vest and dark trousers with a thin light officer’s leg stripe.

Image is clear and clean with great contrast but mount corners are cut and rounded.

Reverse has photographer’s imprint for BROADBENT & CO…PHILADELPHIA. Modern pencil ID on bottom of reverse identifies the subject of the image as “LT. W. B. TODD/PHILADELPHIA.”

Wallace B. Todd enlisted in Philadelphia as a Private in Company K, 82^nd Pennsylvania Infantry on August 27, 1861. He was promoted to 2^nd Lieutenant on July 2, 1862 and to Regimental Quartermaster on July 4^th that same year. He was mustered out September 16, 1864.

During Lt. Todd’s service the 82^nd saw action with the Army of the Potomac on the Peninsula, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor.

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