Handsome Yankee Chaplain (now ID'd) - with gauntlets, cool hat, & cloth covered buttons?

Looks to be a "3" and possibly Charles Snow.
Ha! @Mike Serpa actually posted a likeness of Charles Andrews Snow 3rd MA on his FindAGrave memorial and it is the same pose. Mike cited the copy of the image to "The Third Massachusetts Regiment Volunteer Militia in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1863," John G. Gammons, 1906

So yes, indeed, we can now say with 100% certainty that the "handsome Yankee" is Charles Andrews Snow (12 May 1829 - 28 November 1903) who served as Chaplain of the 3rd Massachusetts. Don't you love it when we can positively ID an image whose identity has been temporarily lost? :thumbsup:

Thanks so much for everyone's kind assistance and to Mike Serpa for posting the image from the book at FindAGrave.
 
Ha! @Mike Serpa actually posted a likeness of Charles Andrews Snow 3rd MA on his FindAGrave memorial and it is the same pose. Mike cited the copy of the image to "The Third Massachusetts Regiment Volunteer Militia in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1863," John G. Gammons, 1906

So yes, indeed, we can now say with 100% certainty that the "handsome Yankee" is Charles Andrews Snow (12 May 1829 - 28 November 1903) who served as Chaplain of the 3rd Massachusetts. Don't you love it when we can positively ID an image whose identity has been temporarily lost? :thumbsup:

Thanks so much for everyone's kind assistance and to Mike Serpa for posting the image from the book at FindAGrave.
Hey! Excellent work @lelliott19 finding that. I posted it 4.5 years ago.
 
Chaplain Charles Andrew Snow.



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Chaplain Rev. CHARLES A. SNOW.


Chaplain Snow was thirty-three years of age when commissioned, and resided in Fall River. He was appointed chaplain Oct. 10, 1862; commissioned October 16th, and sworn into the United States service October 22d. He was on duty with the regiment until it was mustered out. Since that time he had been in professional service as pastor of churches in Fall River, Providence, R. I., South Abington (now Whitman), New Bedford, and West Harwich. In 1898 he retired from full ministerial service on account of ill-health. He is the author of many miscellaneous papers, essays, sermons, important historical sketches, etc. He was a life member of the Old Colony Historical Society. He died in Taunton, Nov. 28, 1903.​

The above is from a book about the history of the Mass. unit found on-line.
 
It was an estate sale of a collector so Im pretty sure the location has nothing to do with the actual image, but the estate was near Knoxville, TN
Which leads to another question- How did a CDV of someone from Massachusetts end up in Knoxville, TN?
 
I don't know if the artist had more than one studio, but the "Catalog of Civil War Photographers" compiled by George F. Witham, has him as "Crittended, Artist - corner of Main &Pleasant Streets, Fall River, Mass" . I corrected his last name in my copy. This compilation is most useful; even if I have no clue as to the state, in the past, I have gone though the entire listing (indexed by state) and found several purveyors of the sun's arts.
At least one of the cdv's shown on Pinterest has a backmark of J.H.Crittenden 37 Main Street, Fall River.
 
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Military Images Magazine provides this standing photo of Chaplain Charles Snow. See below for the magazine's brief but colorful wartime info on Rev. Snow.

 
This place never ceases to amaze me. Great job everyone and awesome photo @lelliott19

I’m sure there has to be a metaphor about our great country somewhere in the fact that a respected historian of Georgia regiments purchased a photo of a Massachusetts clergyman in federal service (handsome at that) at an estate sale in Tennessee and was able to pinpoint exactly who the subject was through the efforts of folks from all over the states working together on a message board.
 
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