Help Identifying Picture?

[Discipulus]

I love this picture. I am not sure why? Maybe it just really brings the period to life for me.

It was recently for sale on eBay, allegedly from an estate in central Illinois, but that does not necessarily mean anything. Picture could be from anywhere. No writing on the back.

Is there anything identifiable to you in the picture? What year? Location? Identity of Company or Regiment? Thanks for your help.

 

[Discipulus]

Close up of flag and officers.

 

[GELongstreet]

According to the Shiloh National Military Park (as they posted on facebook) this is Company C of the 66th Illinois Infantry Regiment (Birge`s Western Sharpshooters) at Camp Davies, south of Corinth.

 

[JOHN42768]

Those must be Henry Rifles they are using. Would love to have a list of the serial numbers they had there. A lot were private purchase through Corinth

 

[UCVRelics]

We were fortunate to have Tom Moss with us at the Shiloh who brought a Henry that was from Corinth. He also brought a reproduction we got to fire.

 

[JOHN42768]

We were fortunate to have Tom Moss with us at the Shiloh who brought a Henry that was from Corinth. He also brought a reproduction we got to fire.
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Richard, Do you happen to remember the serial number? Mine is 4 or 5 numbers away from the late Wiley Post. His was from Corinth.

 

[Discipulus]

According to the Shiloh National Military Park (as they posted on facebook) this is Company C of the 66th Illinois Infantry Regiment (Birge`s Western Sharpshooters) at Camp Davies, south of Corinth.

Thank you!

Now to find out if this seller was committing fraud.

 

[Lampasas Bill]

Birge's Western Sharpshooters makes sense. They seem to be armed with a variety of weapons of varying lengths. The two on the left of the photo enlargement showing the officer and color bearer appear to be holding half stock target rifles. Great photo of what appears to be a company of westerners, given the majority of slouch hats. Most are wearing sack coats, with a few frocks and jackets thrown in, and posed in front of a well-stockaded winter camp. The camp is probably Camp Davis, south of Corinth, which was stockaded. the Sharpshooters were stationed there from October 1862 to November 1863. In Autumn of '63 they began equipping themselves with privately purchased Henry Rifles, which may be some of the shorter weapons seen in the picture, mixed in with the Dimick "plains rifles" that had been initially issued to them in St. Louis in 1861.

 

[Lubliner]

It looks as if Camp Davis (Post above) was built resembling a small village and then adding a stockade fence. There are enough well constructed houses, cabins and barracks that I wonder in the end whether they were usable for establishment as a small town. After the war the displaced should have appreciated these accommodations. Does anyone have any references where this actually occurred not only here, but elsewhere too?
Lubliner.