Possible Very Rare Tintype Civil War Soldier Holding Persimmon Fruit Photo 1860s family mostly tarnish

mostly tarnish

wearing boots and showing a revolver

Very good or better antique condition overall

this sort of hidden person image with a man holding the child are much less common

Charles Walter McCutchen of Princeton

Possible Very Rare Tintype Civil War Soldier Holding Persimmon Fruit Photo 1860s family mostly tarnishOriginal 1 6 tintype in half of a case showing two soldiers holding persimmon fruits in their hands very strange, but research shows that the 100th Indiana Infantry, which became known as the 'Persimmon Regiment' . while marching from Memphis to Vicksburg the regiment disregarded their role as rear guard and started picking persimmons from an orchard. They took so long harvesting the fruit that they were arrested as stragglers. Could this be two