Ran across this image on LoC. Description:
Title: Five unidentified soldiers of the last Color Guard of the 30th Ohio Infantry Regiment in uniforms with rifles and tattered flags.
Creator(s): The Louisville Gallery of Photography, No. 85 Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
Date Created/Published: 1865
Medium: 1 photograph: albumen print on card mount; mount 11 x 7 cm (carte de visite format)
Creator(s): The Louisville Gallery of Photography, No. 85 Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
Date Created/Published: 1865
Medium: 1 photograph: albumen print on card mount; mount 11 x 7 cm (carte de visite format)
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018652242/
Written on the back is "Wm. J.J. Edwards, Zanesville, O." There was a Pvt. William J. Edwards who enlisted in Co. A of the 30th Ohio at age 18, May 9, 1864, and mustered out with company August 13, 1865, so Edwards could be one of the men in the photo.
As to Louisville, Ky., after participating in the Grand Review in Washington, D.C., the 30th Ohio did proceed to Louisville, arriving there on June 17, 1865, so it's possible the photo was taken then.
The soldiers seated at center and standing at left are wearing a "40 Rounds" XV Corps badge. Not sure what the other, round-shaped medals are though. Anyone have an idea?
National and Regimental colors of the 30th Ohio. These could be the same flags as in the photo, although I'm not certain, as regiments usually went through more than one flag throughout the war.
Overview of the 30th Ohio's service:
Organized August 28th, 1861, under Colonel John Groesbeck, who was soon succeeded by Colonel Hugh Ewing, it served in West Virginia, in detachments, until August, 1862, when it was transferred to the Army of the Potomac and participated in the battles of Centerville, South Mountain and Antietam. In January, 1863, the Regiment joined Grant's Army near Vicksburg, and took part in the investment of that stronghold. After the surrender it pursued Johnston to Jackson; returning went into camp at Black River. The 30th moved with Sherman to Tennessee and assaulted Mission Ridge. In January, 1864, it re-enlisted, and after a furlough to Ohio, joined Sherman's Atlanta campaign, and participated the battles of Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Ezra Chapel, Jonesboro and Lovejoy's Station. It followed Sherman to the sea and took part in the successful assault on Fort McAllister, and after the fall of Savannah marched through the Carolinas on to Washington. It proceeded to Louisville in June, and to Arkansas in July, 1865, when it soon after returned to Ohio, and was mustered out August 22nd, 1865.
http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/cw30.html