Waist-up view of Howard in uniform. Second generation image as buttons were gilted in original photograph. Nice clear image. Howard wears a waist belt with two-piece buckle. A Colt revolver is tucked into his belt and he cradles a M1840 cavalry saber in his lap. Sergeant’s chevrons on coat sleeves. No photographer’s backmark. Old pencil identification on reverse.

Records show Howard in Captain Wardlaw Ramsay’s, Company I, 1^st Alabama Infantry, enlisting for “twelve months or unless sooner discharged.” He also serves in Company B. He was 18 years old when he enlisted in Wilcox County, Alabama.

He died in August 1913, and is buried in Camden Cemetery in Wilcox County, Alabama.  [jet]  [ph:L]

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