Return to Photo Collections View previous item View next item View BAKM Collection Index View Photo Archives Index Contributor: Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker Collection: Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker Collection (Code: BAKM) Series: Album 2 (Code: AN002) Item #: BAKM_AN002_0022 Photographer: A. Wallace, Artist, Waynesburg, Pa. Physical Detail: Carte-de-Visite Date: 1860s Caption: Unidentified Can you help to identify this photo? If so, please email Candice Buchanan.

Description / Citation: Carte-de-Visite photograph. Greene County, Pennsylvania, Civil War historian, Garrett Toothman, noted that the subject was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Union Army at the time this photograph was taken. The rectangle on his shoulder is called a shoulderboard, all commissioned officers of the Union Army wore them. A 2nd Lieutenant was the lowest ranking commissioned officer and was signified by a set of shoulder boards with an empty field. His low commissioned officer rank is also signified by the fact that he is wearing a single breasted frock coat; after men got above the rank of Captain they generally, but not necessarily, wore double breasted frock coats. Original, professional photograph from A. Wallace, Artist, Waynesburg, Pa. The Album 2 Series photographs are in a Carte-de-Visite size photograph album that may have once belonged to Permelia (Spencer) Crago [1835-1910] - wife of John N. Crago [1832-1907], daughter of William John Spencer [1805-1889] & Elizabeth Hedge [1806-1883]. The album was passed from Permelia (Spencer) Crago [1835-1910] to her son Thomas Spencer Crago [1866-1925] and his wife, Margaret Leah Hoge [1872-1966], to their daughter Leah Abigail (Crago) Waddell [1902-1962] to her daughter Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Photo Archives Project between 2006 and 2008. The Album 2 Series is a part of the Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker Collection.

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