Can anyone identify this officer?

[CMWinkler]

I recently saw this photo. Can anyone identify this officer?

 

[W. Richardson]

Favores a young.............Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard. What do you know of the photo ?

Respectfully,

William

 

[CMWinkler]

Nothing. Someone saw it posted on Facebook with no information and sent it to me by email asking if I recognized him. I didn't and thought I'd ask here.

 

[TinCan]

CM,
Are you thinkin a colonel of cavalry or infantry? I'm sayin maybe cavalry by his boots.

 

[CMWinkler]

The cuffs look yellow and the boots made me think cavalry, but it's hard to tell. I loved his hat.

 

[TinCan]

I think he's holding a nice walking stick too.

 

[John Winn]

Looks a little like Beauregard to me. With those stars and all that braid he's got to be somebody of note. Nice shot.

 

[Pvt.Shattuck]

I'm not so sure- the eyes are wrong

 

[John Winn]

I don't think it's Beauregard either; just that the guy looks very much like him.

 

[James N.]

CM,
Are you thinkin a colonel of cavalry or infantry? I'm sayin maybe cavalry by his boots.

The cuffs look yellow and the boots made me think cavalry, but it's hard to tell. I loved his hat.

Boots of course mean absolutely nothing on field officers ( the rank of major and above ) since they, as well as other staff officers ( adjutants, aides-de-camp, etc. )were by virtue of their assignments, mounted. The cuffs are quite another matter: infantry blue, artillery red, and medical black would look dark in photographs, making it likely this is a cavalryman and is certainly not Beauregard.

 

[TinCan]

This may be Brigadier General Joseph Finnegan

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

For what it's worth, I tried to solve the puzzle this morning.

About the only information that I could find suggested that he was a Confederate Colonel on parole.
He does have the two Lt. Col. Stars on his collar.

Plus, that hat on the table looks way too boring for Beauregard . . . no ostrich feathers or such.

 

[major bill]

In Civil War era photographs yellow usually photographed as dark due to the photographic processes then in use. I surmise that the trim is buff not yellow. If so then this is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Engineers, Adjutant General's Department, Commissary General's Department, Quartermaster General's Department, or possibly a staff officer unassigned to a branch. Try comparing the color of the trim with the trim on a photograph of a General Officer wearing buff trim.

 

[RebelCause]

I could be wrong but I have an idea that Zuzah colorized this photo some time back.

 

[TinCan]

Don't mean to hijack but have any of you ever seen a photo of Robert E. Lee in uniform with those crazy "chicken guts" on his sleeves? I'm pretty sure I never have.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Don't mean to hijack but have any of you ever seen a photo of Robert E. Lee in uniform with those crazy "chicken guts" on his sleeves? I'm pretty sure I never have.

I resemble that remark.

 

[major bill]

Don't mean to hijack but have any of you ever seen a photo of Robert E. Lee in uniform with those crazy "chicken guts" on his sleeves? I'm pretty sure I never have.

Yes General Lee I have seen General Lee with sleeve braid. He had several uniforms during the war. In 1862 at times he wore a Cadet gray full dress frock coat with sleeve braiding. In 1865 his "Surrender uniform' was a full dress Cadet gray frock coat with sleeve braid. On his 1863 frock coat he wore colonel rank and he did on most of his other frock coats, but on his "Surrender Uniform" frock coat he wore Major General rank.

 

[Toccoa101506]

This is a staff officer, according to the buff white color of his cuffs. If they were yellow as if he was in the cavalry, the cuffs would be darker.