Another Civil War Dalmatian

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

A recent Facebook post by Military Images magazine shares a portrait of an identified Civil War soldier and his Dalmatian. The soldier is 1st Lt. and Quartermaster Edward Macy Marshall of the 40th New York Infantry. The dog's name is unknown. This is the third Dalmatian we've seen among Civil War dogs. General Rufus Ingalls's dog is the most-photographed. Another is here, in a portrait shared by Ron Coddington on Flickr. Does anyone know of others?

https://www.facebook.com/militaryimages/photos/pcb.1793521307339678/1793518794006596/?type=3&theater

 

[donna]

Good find. Will have to research Dalmatians. I am sure there were others. They are a beautiful dog.

 

[John Hartwell]

With Ron Coddington's kind permission, here is that man and dalmatian portrait:

Among his 600+ period photos, Ron has a small "Dogs" gallery. None of the other dogs is clearly a dalmatian, but the following one might be:​

Friend dog has the dalmatian shape, but if he is spotted, it is very faintly so -- his coat looks rather washed out in this cdv. The soldier, btw, is identified. Ron's note:
"Massachusetts-born Charles Augustus Gardner Jr. (1836-1874) worked as a mariner in Maine at the start of the Civil War. In April 1861 he enlisted in the Second Maine Infantry. In early 1862 he was detached from his regular duties to serve on the crew of the casemate ironclad gunboat Cincinnati, part of the Mississippi River flotilla. Gardner participated in the May 1862 action at Plum Point Bend, during which the Cincinnati was repeatedly rammed by Confederate ships and scuttled. The ironclad was raised and repaired, and Gardner served onboard until November 1862.

"Gardner returned to the Second and mustered out with the regiment after its two-year term of enlistment expired in the summer of 1863. He died in 1874 at age thirty-five. According to the family, he died of disease contracted in the army. His father, who also served in the war as a private in the First Company of Massachusetts Sharpshooters, survived him."

With permission, Ron Coddington.

 

[donna]

There is wonderful site on photos of dogs. There a Dalmatian I never have seen before. States tintype from Civil War Era.

see:
http://www.antiquedogphotographs.co.uk/2013/02/civil-war-dalmatian.html