Tad photo?

[Anita]

(01-20-2020 08:44 PM)AussieMick Wrote:  If the image is circa 1862 then Tad would be 9. I think the boy is younger. ... maybe 6 or 7. The one on the right looks older.
My thinking was Tad was photographed twice . .... maybe 1861.... in the photographer 's standard costume and later in the gifted one .... yes, all guesses on my part. The one the right is c. 1864 according to Wikipedia which puts Tad at 11 years old .... much older than the Left image.

I agree. Tad would be nine and the image in the auction photo looks much younger. Without knowing where or when the photo was taken and how Corporal Crounse came by it, it's all guesses. I know of no photos taken of Tad in his military uniform with the Bucktail soldiers, at the Old Soldiers' Home. That would help.