Infantry Shell Jacket for Musicians?

[Bugler Don]

Only one I could find; not the normal birdcage however. He is a fifer from the 54th Massachusetts.

[Hardtack Herring]

Wow that is cool. Do you happen to know his name?

[panzerbob]

I have leopard (well actaully they were jaguar) skinned pants w/matching holsters that I wear on occasion. Actually I only sport them when people get anal and start telling me that Zuave is not "correct" for Civil war, because it is not documented enough. There is one person who gives me **** for having a zuave uniform,whenever he gets too noisy about it I throw on my Jauguar pants, and he quiets down about zuaves for a few months.

[Ross L. Lamoreaux]

Only one I could find; not the normal birdcage however. He is a fifer from the 54th Massachusetts.

Great image! It appears to me to be a Schuykil Arsenal jacket and not a cut down frock due to the fit, length of front, small buttons instead of 3/4 inch general service buttons down the front, collar, and cuffs, with the added trim features made post production. I'd love a high-res scan of that to verify a couple of key points, like the details of the cuffs, but my humble opinion says its an SA jacket with expertly applied trims.

[hendrickms24]

Wow that is cool. Do you happen to know his name?

Musician John Goosberry Co. E. 54th Mass.

One of the twenty-one Black recruits from Canada, twenty-five-year-old Goosberry, a sailor of St. Catharines, Ontario, was mustered into Company E on July 16, 1863, just two days before the fateful assault on Fort Wagner. He was mustered out of service on August 20, 1865, at the disbanding of the regiment.

I found this information for the following web site.

http://www.masshist.org/