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Description/History:
Seated pose of Groo, with sword, who enlisted in 1862
as a 2nd lieutenant, and served with his regiment during
the Chattanooga campaign, the Atlanta campaign,
and during Sherman’s March to the Sea. He was discharged
for disability less than a month before the war’s ended,
on March 20, 1865. Period ink ided on the verso as:
“Lt. Groo, 127th N. Y.” by a person who unwittingly
misidentified his regiment. Records show that there was
only one Groo listed who was an officer in the entire
Union army.
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