United States Marine - USS Cumberland

Item NMC-7852

Description

Daniel O'Connor USMC
Member of the Marine Detachment aboard the USS Cumberland when she was attacked by the Confederate ship Merrimac.
Private and Corporal
(Marine "M" can be seen inside infantry horn on kepi)
No Backmark
Identified in The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War, Vol 2, page 252 by David M. Sullivan and in Military Images, Nov-Dec 1998 Issue, Pg 29.
CDV is from the Mike McAfee Collection