CDV of Captain Thomas C. Meatyard, Asst. Adjutant General of Volunteers SOLD

Thomas C. Meatyard, entered service as a 1st lieutenant in the 27th Illinois Infantry in August of 1861, and resigned in June of 1862, commissioned a captain in the U.S. Volunteers Adjutant General’s Department; he was attached to Napoleon Bonaparte Buford’s staff in the Department of Eastern Arkansas.  Meatyard would likely have seen action at the battles of Belmont, Missouri, and Farmington, Mississippi.

The image is inscribed on the reverse, “Our Present Adjt. General.”  Photographed T.W. Bankes, Helena, Ark.