Carte-de-visite photographs of soldiers in the United States Colored Infantry Regiments during the American Civil War

Carte-de-visite photographs of soldiers in the 65th and 67th United States Colored Infantry Regiments during the American Civil War created in the studios of photographers in southern Louisiana, 1864-1867. The studio portraits primarily depict white officers in the regiments, but include a single double portrait of two African American enlisted men, First Sergeant Thomas Stafford and Private Gentry Emmerson, who served as a principal musician playing a fife

Officers from the regiments include Lieutenant Colonel Henry E. Losey, Captain and Regimental Quartermaster Pomeroy W. Laughlin, Captain Jordan J. D. Scales, Adjutant Albert F. Hunt, First Lieutenant Anson B. Mills, Second Lieutenant Lewis Merriam, and Second Lieutenant Hiram M. Roberts

The photographers in southern Louisiana include Andrew D. Lytle, Baton Rouge; Frey & Olsen, Photographers, Morganza; Theodore Lilienthal's Photographic Gallery and J. W. Perry, both in New Orleans