*** UPDATE *** Interesting Photo of WW I Soldier

[Two Flints]

Hello SSS,

Here it is:



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[Jobe Holiday]

Great photo of a Spencer Carbine! But, at that late date it has to be a studio prop!

J.

[Two Flints]

Hi Jobe,

According to the eBay ad:  "This auction is for a real photo postcard that shows a WWI era soldier seated on a stool with a Civil War Spencer Carbine. It is possible that this soldier has a relative in a Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War who used this carbine in combat. The card is not postmarked but dates to the WWI era."

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[G.W. Strong]

He is wearing the pre war M1910 leggings so I would put the photo around 1915 or so. Certainly no earlier than 1910 and no later than 1917.

[matt45]

Sure looks like Ike

[wormey]

 :)Matt45, I think you are right!!  I would bet my eye teeth that that photo if of none other than D.D. Eisenhower.  Can`t explain the Spencer, but does not appear to have a Stabler cut off so it probably predates the indian wars.  Great picture!!

[Herbert]

From the photo the carbine apears to have the rounded of hamer of the 1865-67 and NM carbines,the frame also appears to be of the the later action ,also with some very rough measuring of the barrel in the photo it seems to be a 20 inch barrel.It does look like a very young Eisenhower if so that would be very interesting indeed

[Two Flints]

Sorry guys,

I sent an Email to the Eisenhower Foundation and received the following reply:

Dear Mr. Grandinetti/ Two Flints?:

Mr. Mack Teasley, Executive Director of the Eisenhower Foundation, has forwarded your  e-mail of November 15 to me for reply.  After looking at the man in the photo, I can say that he is definitely not Dwight Eisenhower.  The face is not that of Eisenhower from the World War I time period.  Also, the man pictured is wearing an enlisted man's uniform; an officer would be wearing leather puttees.  The rifle is appears to be a Spencer .56 Caliber Carbine which the U. S. Army used in the 1860s.  Beginning in 1903, the Army issued Springfield Rifles.  Of course, the rifle could just be there as a photographer's prop.

I hope you find this information useful and, if you have any questions, please let me know.

Sincerely,

Kathy Struss

Audiovisual Archivist
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum

200 Southeast Fourth Street

PO Box 339

Abilene KS 67410

Telephone:  (785) 263-6747

Fax:  (785) 263-6715attachment.

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