Individual large-format albumen photograph with an arched top, ca. 1861-1865. Housed in a modern custom-carved walnut wooden frame. The lower margin of the original card mount features a series of hand-written period numbers matching a comprehensive, hand-inked roster key affixed to the reverse of the frame.

A spectacular, museum-grade outdoor unit view capturing Company I of the 22nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry in full battle line formation. The wide-angle composition showcases thirty-nine individual soldiers, musicians, and officers arrayed across a dirt parade ground or field encampment. In the left foreground stands a young company musician with his drum, flanked by officers in frock coats and slouch hats. The long line of enlisted men stands at "shoulder arms," each private equipped with a regulation dark blue sack coat, light trousers, and a percussion rifle-musket with a fixed bayonet gleaming against the background. In the distance, a tall pine tree and a large, wooden garrison barrack or storehouse building provide an authentic wartime camp setting.

Remarkably, the original owner of this image carefully inked small numbers (1 through 39) directly beneath the boots of each corresponding soldier along the bottom edge of the mount. On the reverse, a magnificent, long period paper document features a beautifully hand-lettered period ink roster ledger titled: Company I 22nd Ohio, late 13th Missouri Volunteers. The document goes on to completely itemize all thirty-nine men by name, rank, and company assignment.

The reference to the "13th Missouri Volunteers" highlights a fascinating, highly desirable early-war western theater history. Raised in the summer of 1861 under the authority of Major General John C. Frémont, the regiment was initially composed of both Missouri and Ohio recruits and designated as the 13th Missouri. The unit was thrown directly into the thick of the action, compiling an impressive combat record at the Battle of Fort Donelson and the brutal hornets' nest at Shiloh under General Ulysses S. Grant. In May 1862, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton officially transferred the regiment to the state of Ohio, re-designating them as the 22nd Ohio Volunteers. They spent the remainder of the war operating extensively through the trans-Mississippi and western campaigns, including the Siege of Corinth. Large-format, outdoor company-level camp views that survive with a 100% complete, verified face-keyed roster are almost entirely absent from the marketplace, and represent a rare opportunity for even the most advanced 19th-century photo collector. 

Good to very good. The image surface retains a pleasing, uniform historic sepia tone with strong detail and clarity. The original card mount shows typical, honest age-toning and very light surface foxing confined to the wide outer borders. The hand-written numbers along the lower edge remain clear and legible. The reverse paper roster key is extraordinarily well-preserved, with the ink handwriting remaining dark, crisp, and completely legible, showing only expected light water-toning marks near the upper and lower margins.