CDV BREVET BRIGADIER EDWARD PIERCE FYFFE, 26TH OHIO INFANTRY

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Item Code: 1229-21

Standard CDV w/no back-mark. Reverse inscribed in ink: “Edward P. Fyffe (my great-grandfather) /Joseph F. Fyffe, August 27, 1970.”  Card features left profile bareheaded breast shot of bearded subject in officer’s frock coat w/ shoulder straps. Image slightly dim. Lightly foxed margins.  Else Good plus.

Edward P. Fyffe, aged 51, was enlisted and commissioned as a Colonel of the 26th Ohio Infantry, 6/10/1861, and discharged 12/18/1863.  On 6//181864 he was commissioned into field and staff 7th Veteran Reserves Corps and mustered out 8/20/1866. He was awarded Brevet Brigadier rank, 3/13/1865. He died at Urbana, OH, 9/25/1867.

The 26th Ohio was organized in Columbus, OH, July 1861, and served in West Virginia’s Kanawa Valley during the summer of 1861, later transferred to the Army of the Ohio and still later the Army of the Cumberland, serving exclusively in the west, participating in the Battles of Shiloh, Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, the battles for Chattanooga and the Atlanta Campaign, and the later battles of Franklin and Nashville toward the conclusion of the war, mustering out in San Antonio, October 1865. During service it lost 122 men killed and mortally wounded and 116 by disease for a total 238.

Solid Ohio regimental collectible.  [jp][ph:L]

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