Offered here is a very nice CDV of David Smith Cowles in uniform and holding a sword. Image is crisp and clear. Mount is equally nice. Photographer's backmark, F. Forshew, Hudson, NY.

Col. Cowles was born in Canaan, Connecticut in 1817. He attended Yale, became a successful lawyer, and joined a volunteer infantry from New York State in 1862. Col. Cowles raised the 128th New York Infantry regiment. He dies on May 27, 1863, in an assault on a Confederate fort at Port Hudson, Louisiana. Various accounts attribute his death to a "bayonet thrust," a "gun shot wound through the body," and "after being hit by shrapnel." After being wounded, Cowles reportedly declined to be carried from the battlefield, preferring to die among his men.

He is buried in Hudson City cemetery, Hudson, NY.  [jet]  [ph:L]

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