CDV - A Powder Boy from the Bienville New Orleans

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This is a Civil War era Carte de Visite, CDV, or calling card, with the photo, identified in pencil on the back, of three powder boys from the U.S.S. Bienville at Port Royal. The U.S.S. Bienville, according to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, was a 1500 ton wooden side-wheel steamship built at Brooklyn, New York in 1860. It was purchased by the Navy in August 1861 as part of the buildup during the first months of the Civil War. The ship participated in the expedition that seized Naval bases at Port Royal and Beaufort, SC. The Bienville operated off the Confederacy's Atlantic coast for more than a year, taking part in the capture of positions along the Georgia and Florida shore and then in the Gulf of Mexico w she blockaded and supported the capture of the entrance to Mobile Bay AL and Galveston Bay TX . The photographic studio is E. Jacobs, New Orleans LA. This photo must have been made after the battles in the Gulf since the photographic studio is located in New Orleans. Size is 2.5 x almost 4 inches. Condition is fair as the image is light and the facial features are hard to distinguish as well as yellowed from age. The bottom corners are clipped and the back of the card is age darkened. On the back of the card t is some foxing around the edges. Tried to find out the function of the powder boy. They either bring it from the magazine read more

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