Odd uniform photo

[major bill]

Anyone have any thoughts on this. did the guy put on a few pounds

and pin his jacket together? This man was in the Coldwater Light Artillery form Michiagn.

 

[101combatvet]

 

[Confederates are awesome]

The two certainly look alike

 

[Mr. King]

It looks as if the jacket was made that way. Probably early war. It is weird though. Also, they generally wore their clothes much tighter than we do today.
He certainly seems to want his pants right below his nipples.

 

[major bill]

This is not a pre war uniform. The company received 9 button roundabout at the start of the war. Not sure when he received this uniform. Maybe a post war photo of a veteran?

 

[Gandycreek]

LOL ! Now that's funny right there.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

LOL, you were thinking Munchkin while my first thought was Dr. Seuss' Whoville.

 

[major bill]

Note his 12 button jacket has small buttons, but where the "pins" are and there are large buttons.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

He certainly seems to want his pants right below his nipples.

Kind a' like Fred Mertz ?

 

[101combatvet]

It's no wonder the southerners hated the Germans.

 

[Susquehanna River Rat]

Wondering if it a European uniform jacket. Nicholas Ziesse (pronounced 'TZEE-say') is probably a German, Swiss or Austrian immigrant. He might have been in a European Army and brought the jacket with him.

.....and I can't resist....."Weeeeeee represent, the Ar-tillery, the Ar-tillery, the Ar-tillery,.........."

 

[John Hartwell]

That's a very interesting bugle -- I'd love to have one like that..
Also, I wonder what the bars on his shoulders, right at the seam, indicated.

 

[FrankN]

And everyone thinks the musicians/artists of our era have unique hairstyles and clothes! I would love to add a bugle or a fife to my CW collection.