Back-mark: “Bishop’s Photographic Gallery/ Cincinnati, O.” Reverse signature, in ink: “Yours truly/ P.S. Hubbard, Sgt. Co. “E”.  The image depicts a young, bareheaded mustachioed soldier in a seated pose, in uniform coat w/sergeant stripes. Exhibits slight soiling along upper margin. Else VG.

Sgt. Pierson’s regiment, the 81^st Ohio, was organized in Sept. 1861. and served exclusively in the western theater, attached at various times to the 13^th, 17^th, 16^th and 15^th Army Corps. The unit participated in the 1862 Battles of Shiloh and Corinth and the 1864 Atlanta Campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea and through the Carolinas. During service it lost 62 men killed and mortally wounded and 160 by disease for a total of 222.

Solid CDV of a solid soldier of the 81^st Ohio, a western unit that definitely got around and saw some action.  [JP]

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