Three-quarter-length albumen CDV studio portrait of Sergeant Alfred A. Stratton. Print caption to mount recto: "Alfred A. Stratton, Co., G. 147th N.Y.V. Wounded at Petersburgh [sic], Va". Canceled red 2-cent revenue stamp to verso.

An image of Civil War veteran Alfred A Stratton, who lost both of his arms to war wounds. He wears his uniform coat with his 1st Sergeant chevrons on his pinned-up sleeves. A medal is pinned to his chest near a full breast pocket. 

Stratton was just 17 years old when he enlisted at Ellicott, New York, as a private on 19 August 1863. He was mustered into Company G of the 147th New York Infantry. Stratton joined his regiment, which had just fought at the Battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, to accompany them in Virginia. In 1864, he saw heavy action in the Campaign from the Rapidan to the James, fighting in the Battles of the Wilderness, Laurel Hill, Spotsylvania Court House, the Assault on the Salient, North Anna River, and Cold Harbor before joining the Siege of Petersburg. It was here that he received his grievous wounds requiring the amputation of both of his arms. He was discharged for disability on June 18th. 

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