Carte de visite portrait depicting an unidentified bearded Union soldier standing beside a studio column. The soldier wears a dark military frock coat over uniform trousers and rests one hand on a decorative pedestal, posed in a formal studio setting typical of Civil War portrait photography.

The reverse bears the ornate imprint Wolff’s Gallery, No. 10 Royal Street, Alexandria, Virginia, with photographer credit Opperman. A blue two-cent Internal Revenue stamp is affixed, dating the photograph to the Civil War tax period of the mid-1860s.

A strong and well-composed wartime portrait from one of the most important Union-occupied photographic studios operating in Alexandria during the war.