Cap box identification

[moswalt]

Does anyone recognize the device on the cap box in this image? Otherwise, he wears a 2-piece "CS" buckle and has a rare Bacon Arms Co. pocket revolver tucked in his belt.

 

[captaindrew]

It's an Ohio breast plate he's added to his cap box

 

[moswalt]

Thanks for the reply. Interesting.

 

[rebed19th]

Found a image of the plate. The back is filled with lead and secured with 2 wire loops. In Kerksis book it does call it is a cartridge box plate even though it does look more like a breast plate.

 

[Texas Yank]

Young man looks pretty worn out already... doesn't he?

 

[mofederal]

I wonder what belt plate he is wearing. Some sort of two piece affair. Did Ohio make or issue state seal belt plates.

 

[TerryB]

Some Tennesseans, POWs, elected to become guards rather than be exchanged. The unit they signed into was an Ohio unit. That might explain the CS buckle.

 

[JOHN42768]

I wonder what belt plate he is wearing. Some sort of two piece affair. Did Ohio make or issue state seal belt plates.
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The two piece buckle is marked CS , but is reversed in image

 

[JD Mayo]

Some Tennesseans, POWs, elected to become guards rather than be exchanged. The unit they signed into was an Ohio unit. That might explain the CS buckle.

That would make sense than be staying a prisoner threw out the rest of the war sick with diarrhea. They did do galvanizing back in the real war.

 

[archieclement]

Curious other then the cap box, what makes one think he is Union or galvanized?

From the the casualness of the attire I would have guessed hes confederate and the cap box captured.

 

[TerryB]

That would make sense than be staying a prisoner threw out the rest of the war sick with diarrhea. They did do galvanizing back in the real war.

I only noticed this because on some of the microfilm rolls dealing with the exchanges of POWs from Island #10, Fort Donelson and Shiloh, a few names had the notation that they took the oath and became guards.

 

[RochesterBill]

The two piece buckle is marked CS , but is reversed in image

My lifes mission is to explain this.

Tintypes, ambrotypes, etc. appear as mirror images. Which is to say left is right and right is left. This is because the picture is itself a positive not a negative. You expose the plate, it records the image exactly as a mirror would, and then you chemically fix it and hand it to the customer. There is no "print"

Most of the pictures you see in books are either reverse images or images the publisher reversed for clarity

 

[treebie2000]

Interesting that the case says, "Constitution and Union" and is covered in US flags.
Must have been a capture or replaced???

 

[Lubliner]

So what is the star under the grip of his gun, and halfway tucked into his CS belt plate?
Lubliner.