Which name and which regiment...?

[noman]

http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-p...mer-boy-in-african-american-civil-war?popup=1

http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/IH157936/drummer-jackson?popup=1

 

[Robert Gray]

In your second reference he is identified in the text below the photograph.

 

[James B White]

He's identified in the first, too: "Taylor, the drummer boy with the 78th Regt. U.S.C.I. (U.S. Colored Infantry)"

And in the second: "Portrait of 'Drummer' Jackson, a former slave serving as a drummer in the 79th United States Colored Troops"

It's not so much a lack of identification, as an abundance of it.

This is the before-and-after set of photos, but I don't know which identification is correct:
http://www.cdjewell.net/photos/MostViewed.cfm?Rank=15&Top=20

 

[John Hartwell]

He's identified in the first, too: "Taylor, the drummer boy with the 78th Regt. U.S.C.I. (U.S. Colored Infantry)"

And in the second: "Portrait of 'Drummer' Jackson, a former slave serving as a drummer in the 79th United States Colored Troops"

It's not so much a lack of identification, as an abundance of it.

This is the before-and-after set of photos, but I don't know which identification is correct:
http://www.cdjewell.net/photos/MostViewed.cfm?Rank=15&Top=20

Noman's question seems to refer to the fact that the two photos in the OP are identical -- one identified as Taylor, the other
as Jackson, with different regiment numbers. The way some USCI regiments were shifted around and reorganized, the 78th and 79th may well have been the same unit at different times.

Cheers!

jno

 

[noman]

Link of interest:
http://www.afrigeneas.com/forum-mil...129/sbj/drummer-boy-78th-regiment-correction/
http://www.unf.edu/floridahistoryonline/montgomery/index.html
http://12slave.smugmug.com/ARTDEPAR...raits/21566473_XXNzmq#!i=1719627205&k=MfxN6Rf