ID'd 3X ARMED SOLDIER 100 ILLINOIS INFANTRY DIED DURING WAR UNUSUAL BURIAL ohio found side-by-side in an album

found side-by-side in an album and probably taken in the same sitting

on the back in period ink somebody has written

Great alert pose

The daguerreotype is housed in its original thermoplastic wall frame

ID'd 3X ARMED SOLDIER 100 ILLINOIS INFANTRY DIED DURING WAR UNUSUAL BURIAL ohio found side-by-side in an album1 6 tintype of an identified soldier, "William Mahaffay, son of Samuel and Betsey Churchill Mahaffay". Mahaffay was born in 1843 and died of disease in 1863. Apparently there was some mix up with his burial and an unknown soldier was buried as Mahaffay at Oak Hill Cemetery in Illinois.. but Mahaffay is actually buried at Stones River National Cemetery in Tennessee.. see picture 2 (source: FindAGrave). You can find his memorial on FindAGrave at Stones