My father was an Army Officer assigned as the Inspector General for the First Army in NY and New England. He visited National Guard and Reserve armories throughout the area. During one of these inspections he was given a large mounted and framed photograph. He was told it was of a General Peach and that it was of a rare and special nature.

The photograph had no identifying markings but was of a group of uniformed officers and enlisted men of the era of the American Civil War. The are few markings visible on the uniforms, a buckle with "MCG" or "MCC" or "MSG". The other possible marked devices were unclear. Their accouterments and weapons are all of the same era.

My research to date has turned up references to a General Peach during the Civil War who was recruiting combat tested young men to become officers in a regiment of coloured troops he was raising to fight for the Northern Armies. He made contact with a young Iowan cavalryman but was unsuccessful in recruiting him.