Figure 1.-- Here we have another unidentified boy. There is no information available other than the tintype portrait. It was done about the size of a CDV, 3.5" X 2.5". We believe it ws taken early in the Civil War, probably 1861 or 62. Notice the pose, like a standard Dag or Ambro portarit, with the small table draped with fabric that had a bold pattern. The boy looks to be a younger teenager, probably 13 or 14 years old. He wears a rather formal uniform with a long jacket or blouse.

Here we have another unidentified boy. There is no information available other than the tintype portrait. It was done about the size of a CDV, 3.5" X 2.5". We believe it ws taken early in the Civil War, probably 1861 or 62. Notice the pose, like a standard Dag or Ambro portarit, with the small table draped with fabric that had a bold pattern. The boy looks to be a yuunger teenager, probably 13 or 14 years old. He wears a rather formal uniform with a long jacket or blouse. This was a an officer's uniform, not one of a young boy who has just enlisted or about to enlist. Many Confederate soldiers served without unifornms issed by the Government in their own clothes. This boy's family clearly had an impressive inifirm done for him before sending him off to battle. We suspect he came from a well-to-do family, pethaps part of the Confedsracy's plantation aristocracy. We believe that the well-to-do in the south were more willing to send their boys to war than in the North. There were of course many boys in the Federal Army, but they tended to come from more working-class backgrounds. Also notice the Bowie knife, probably meaning the boy did not own a pistol.