Casual portrait of a seated federal soldier wearing a rare gray shirt, visible under his unbuttoned frock coat, and a Hardee hat with gold-highlighted hunting horn (infantry) insignia. He uses a long, curvy pipe apparatus to enjoy a smoke as the photographer captures his likeness. (Some surface rubs/abrasions and scratches with loss, light vertical bends to far left side extending the length of the plate; unsealed.) Housed in a geometric Union case [Berg 3-195] (non-functioning closure, small nicks to edges). The subject's attire and overall aura suggests a western theater designation.