Haunting 1860s Sixth Plate Ambrotype of Headless Civil War Soldier quebec folk art but here’s a deciphering of

but here’s a deciphering of one section

which is in pretty rough shape but which I think is really quite extraordinary

whose head

and structurally super sturdy

Haunting 1860s Sixth Plate Ambrotype of Headless Civil War Soldier quebec folk art but here’s a deciphering ofA very dark thing for certain, and to me quite a poignant one. I believe this is an ambrotype, and certainly its is a Civil war soldier in Union uniform captured in the image, whose head, through some combination of damage and the effects of time, I assume just chance occurrence, appears transformed into a cloud of smoke. About as haunting a portrait, and portrait of the effects of war, as I might imagine. Sold as found in case (missing opposite side)