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Unidentified officers, probably belonging to a West Virginia Regiment.

25. Group Portrait of Union Army Officers During Civil War

Pierpoint was originally from Morgantown, Virginia (later West Virginia. He was employed in Indiana at the start of the Civil War and enlisted in a Indiana regiment. His parents, also loyal to the Union, were still living in Morgantown. This cased image is probably an ambrotype.

26. Union Corporal Jacob Pierpoint, 19th Indiana Vol. Regiment

During the Civil War, Goff enlisted in the Confederate Army at age 17, in the 19th Virginia Cavalry and later, Company A, 26th Virginia Cavalry. After the war, he married Rachael Morton.

27. Thomas M. Goff, Webster County, W. Va.

Before the war Davidson was a preacher in Taylor County.

28. Union First Lieutenant John N. Davidson of Flemington, Taylor County, W. Va.

Davidson was a preacher before the war. According to F. A. Cather's diary, AM 3633, Davidson died in April 12, 1864, probably from disease. There is a revenue stamp on the back of the photograph indicating a tax had been paid on the image. This tax was implemented to pay for the war.

29. Union First Lieutenant John N. Davidson of Flemington, Taylor County, W. Va.

Postcard photograph of Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters. Most of the building is obscured by trees. See back of the original image for correspondence.

30. Stonewall Jackson Headquarters, Winchester, Va.