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Trans-Mississippi Troopers

Dressed in plumed hats and overshirts, these men may be Texas or Mississippi cavalrymen according to late collector and dealer William A. Turner. Their ages suggest a father and son who enlisted in defense of the new Confederate States of America.

Sixth plate ambrotype by an unidentified photographer. Bobby McCoy Collection.
Sixth plate ambrotype by an unidentified photographer. Bobby McCoy Collection.

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