SOLD!!! A rakish image of Lt. Thomas J. Stotsbery of Company A of the 22nd Ohio Infantry and Company F of the 53 United States Colored Troops. Please note that this guys name is spelled Stateberry, Stotsbery, and Stotesberry in the different references I have found him. I am using the Historical Data Systems spelling for his 53rd USCT record. Stotsbery enlisted as a private in Compant A of the 22nd Ohio Infnatry in April 1861. He mustered out in August 1861. He was commisioned 2nd Lieutenant in Company F of the 53rd USCT in August 1863. He resigned on July 18, 1864 as a 1st Lieutenant. This guy looks like a bummer if I have ever seen one! The image is pencil signed on the front of the carte 'Yours Truly - Thos. J. Stotesbery". There is no backmark.
22nd Ohio Regiment Infantry (3 Months). Organized at Camp Jackson, Columbus, Ohio, April and May, 1861. Moved to Parkersburg, W. Va., May 30, thence to Burning Springs and Elizabethtown, and to Three Forks. Attached to Cox's Brigade, District of the Kanawha, W. Va. Operations against guerrillas in Gilmer, Calhoun and Braxton Counties and railroad guard duty till August. Mustered out August 19, 1861.
53rd Regiment Infantry
Organized March 11, 1864, from 3rd Mississippi Infantry (African Descent). Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, United States Colored Troops, District of Vicksburg, Miss., to October, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 16th Corps, to November, 1864. Dept. of Arkansas to February, 1865. District of Vicksburg, Miss., and Dept. of Mississippi to March, 1866.
SERVICE.--Post and garrison duty at Haines Bluff, District of Vicksburg, Miss., until October, 1864. Expedition to Grand Gulf March 12-14. Action at Grand Gulf July 16. Moved to St. Charles, Ark., on White River October, 1864, and duty there until February, 1865. Action on White River, near St. Charles, October 22, 1864. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., February, 1865, and duty there; at Macon, Meridian and other points in the Dept. of Mississippi until March, 1866. Mustered out March 8, 1866.
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