CDV is a full standing view identified as Levi S. Jones of the 44^th and 121^st New York Infantry.

Jones is posed standing at the position of “ATTENTION” with one hand resting on a low table. He wears a dark kepi with some undiscernible cap brass on the front of the crown, a dark New York shell jacket with cloth epaulettes and a horizontal breast pocket and light trousers. Jones also wears his cartridge box with sling and plate as well as his waistbelt with oval plate and cap box. He is armed with a Model 1842 musket with fixed bayonet and has what looks to be a Colt Army revolver tucked in his belt.

Contrast and clarity are good. Paper is good but the mount is clipped at the corners and shows light surface dirt. Just below the paper image, on the mount, is “LEVI S. JONES” in faint period pencil while below it the name is repeated in ballpoint pen.

Reverse is blank but for “44 N.Y.” in pencil.

Levi S. Jones was born in 1841 in Galen, New York. He enlisted as a private in Company C, 44^th New York Infantry (aka “The Ellsworth Avengers”) on August 20, 1861. The regiment was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and joined it at Hall’s Hill, Virginia on October 28, 1861. It was here that Private Jones became ill and was discharged for disability on January 27, 1862.

Jones enlisted for a second time on July 23, 1862 as a private in Company B, 121^st New York. The regiment was assigned to the 6^th Corps of the Army of the Potomac and was present at South Mountain and Fredericksburg. The 121^st was engaged in its first heavy action in the battle of Salem Church during the Chancellorsville Campaign. It was here that Jones was wounded and eventually taken to a hospital at New Baltimore, Virginia. He died there of a bowel hemorrhage on August 13, 1863 and was buried in West Winfield Cemetery in West Winfield, New York.

With the image are two modern copies of the CDV, one of which is a slight enlargement as well as two modern photos of a memorial in West Winfield, New York that bears Jones’ name among others. There are also a few Xeroxed copy pages of research.  [ad] [ph:L]

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