4 CDVs Mother & Civil War Soldier Sons Incl BBG Edwin F Cooke Rare 1860s Photo Sportswear The contrast isn't super strong

The contrast isn't super strong but details are visible

a soldier in the 53rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Image #2: Ambrotype

The inclusion of the little girls (and boy with bow and arrow

4 CDVs Mother & Civil War Soldier Sons Incl BBG Edwin F Cooke Rare 1860s Photo Sportswear The contrast isn't super strongLot of four CDVs of the Cooke family: Olivia Wade Cooke (1810 1883) and her sons Oliver Wade Cooke (1833 1907; initialed O. W. C. on his photo), Henry Parkhurst Cooke (1841 1919, upper left in scan #1), Captain, 2nd NJ Infantry, and the last CDV is EITHER Brevet Brigadier General Edwin Francis Cook (1835 1867), 2nd NY Volunteer Infantry, OR Sergeant Frederick A. Cooke (1837 1864), 2nd NJ Volunteer Infantry. I believe he is most likely Edwin Francis,