DOPPELGANGER

I read the March issue with much enjoyment. My favorites were the article on Shiloh from an Ohio officer’s perspective and the cover story about Grierson’s Raid through Mississippi. I did note, however, an inaccuracy on a photo identification in the article titled “Macabre Trophies” by John Banks. The photograph in question was one of Maj. Gen. Franklin Kitchell Gardner on P. 50, but, according to the caption, there is new research suggesting it is actually a photograph of Confederate Brig. Gen. Richard B. Garnett.

I recall seeing this argument before, so I looked through my back issues of your magazine until I located a 2009 letter to the editor from a gentleman who compared the same Gardner likeness along with two other images—one of Garnett’s relative and a later picture of Gardner.

I have found another CDV of Gardner that definitely answers all of the questions on the comparisons. The argument for it being an image of Garnett is simply based