Nice photograph of an identified Vermont soldier. This is a seated studio view of the man in uniform. The soldier wears a regulation 9-button frock coat. There is a slouch hat of the table next to him. A small 6th Corps badge is pinned to the chest.  Image is clear with good contrast.  Mount remains in good, untrimmed condition with slight staining on the edges. Photographer's backmark, F.A. Stevens, Chelsea, Vermont, and a revenue stamp are on reverse.

Martin Van Buren Davis was born in 1839 in Tunbridge, Orange County, VT.  On 5/1/61, while a resident of Chelsea, VT he enlisted at the age of 22 as a Corporal. On 6/20/61 he mustered into Co. E, 2^nd Vermont Infantry. Re-enlisted on 1/31/64. At some point he was promoted to Sergeant. He was wounded on 5/5/64 at The Wilderness, where he sustained a fractured rib after being struck by a bullet; and again on 10/19/64 at Cedar Creek, when a Minie ball entered his left side and passed through his body.  He was discharged on 6/18/65.

Per information provided on findagrave.com, it appears that he may have been wounded a third time, preceding the other instances, at Chancellorsville on 5/3/63, when he was struck in the left side by a Minie ball, fracturing a rib; his life was saved by the ball striking a memorandum book he carried in his pocket.  Davis died in Chelsea in 1894 at the age of 54 and is buried there in Highland Cemetery.

A sincere thank you to our customer who provided us with the ID for this image and a screen capture of an identical image that was on the now defunct Vermont in the Civil War website.

From the late William Turner collection.   [jet/ld] [ph:L]

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