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Re: Battle Shirts and Louisiana Troops

No, but all accoutrement/supply replacements, etc. all reference jackets, not battle shirts. I assume from all three brothers being together and these being battle shirts that they posed early war, 1862 is my best GUESS. All three brothers (Hypolite, Dennis and Horthere) enlisted on March 30, 1862. Our BEST bet is the picture was taken between late March and late 1862. By January 1863 one was furloughed home sick. He came back and then they started to fall: one wounded & captured at Gettysburg, one wounded & captured at Rappahannock St. and the third captured at Spottsylvania C.H.

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