Haunting 1860s Sixth Plate Ambrotype of Headless Civil War Soldier antique bank and find them poignant

and find them  poignant

November 12

They are in good shape

What a lot of work

And it is heavy

Haunting 1860s Sixth Plate Ambrotype of Headless Civil War Soldier antique bank and find them poignantA very dark thing for certain, and to me quite a poignant one. I believe this is an ambrotype, and certainly its is a Civil war soldier in Union uniform captured in the image, whose head, through some combination of damage and the effects of time, I assume just chance occurrence, appears transformed into a cloud of smoke. About as haunting a portrait, and portrait of the effects of war, as I might imagine. Sold as found in case (missing opposite side)