- Joined
- Jan 12, 2016
- Location
- South Carolina
This is my GGG Grandfather, William Franklin Owen. According to my aunt, this is "the oldest family picture we have", and I've actually made contact with a distant cousin who still has not only the Owen name, but this picture as well. So it's been passed down through some fairly distant branches of the family tree.
Now I had assumed this was a picture of him in his Civil War uniform, but it doesn't look like any Civil War uniform I've seen, and while he served with a unit from North Carolina, his belt buckle appears to have the South Carolina State seal on it.
So, can anyone help identify the uniform (if that's what it is), or the belt buckle? I'm curious about how a North Carolina boy ended up with a SC belt buckle.
Now I had assumed this was a picture of him in his Civil War uniform, but it doesn't look like any Civil War uniform I've seen, and while he served with a unit from North Carolina, his belt buckle appears to have the South Carolina State seal on it.
So, can anyone help identify the uniform (if that's what it is), or the belt buckle? I'm curious about how a North Carolina boy ended up with a SC belt buckle.