What post-photographic 19th US century dark skirted stripe embroidered jacket, hard brim and top forage cap, light trousers, sword uniform is this?
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IMHO, that it is an imitation of the cavalry uniform. Reasons:
- The light stripes on the breast are drawn, not made of the lacing, as it was normal even for privates for all 19-20 cent.
- Such stripes were used in cavalry only. The sabre, even the straight one, also points to the cavalry. So poor uniform could belong only to a private. But they could not adorn their hats. The only privates that wore feathers in some armies were forest sharpshooters. But they were foot soldier, and a sabre badly fits with a rifle. And, normally, even cavalry privates had better clothes.
- The hat looks too fancy and obviously simply cannot hold on the head during any fast movement. Even much more deep models were kept on the head by bands under the chin. Can you imagine such a person running into an attack, holding the sabre in one hand and the hat on the head by another one?
- The soldier has no pistols. A foot soldier could manage without a pistol, but he would have a rifle and no saber. If it were an officer, he could manage with the sabre only, but even if he didn't have the obligation to wear a pistol, he could buy it, and they always did. But even being such officer-pistol hater is highly improbable due to the utter cheapness of the clothes, as I said.
A cheap imitation of a uniform could exist in the later Confederation, (But the hat needs a special legend) or simply a theatre imitation. By the way, the theater imitation could explain why somebody in the 19th century wanted to be expensively photoed in such cheap and disordered clothes. Normally, any sergeant would punish a private so untidy.
Oh! It could also be an imitation especially for photographing. Then the photo could be made not so far ago, really - everywhen.
I would say, they wanted to imitate something as the third or the eleventh person here:
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The uniform here is a musicians uniform, civil war era.
A picture at the Library of Congress shows an individual wearing a similar uniform.
The image has the label (emphasis mine)
[Private George V. Capron, bugler, of Co. G, 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment in uniform]
Another LOC image shows another musician, this one with sword.
Caption reads (emphasis again mine):
[Two unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms, one wearing musician's uniform and holding Model 1840 musician's sword, the other holding Colt Model 1851 Navy revolver]
The sword on his belt in the OPs image is a better match for the 1840 NCO sword however, not the expected 1840 musicians sword. You can see both side by side at this web site:
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