Profile withdrawn

About a month ago, as I was putting the finishing touches on a profile of Capt. Charles Shaler Smith, a civilian engineer-turned-CSA officer who helped choose the location and design the Augusta Powder Works, I received a discussion forum response from author Chip Bragg. He's writing a book on the Works, and answered an earlier request for information about Smith that I had posted on the Georgia Civil War Discussion Forum. During the course of our e-mail exchange, I sent him a scan of the Smith image. Chip challenged the identity of the subject in the photo. After several weeks of consulting with Confederate uniform experts and comparing the image to three other portraits of Smith, I concur that the individual is probably not Smith, but is likely a early-war Georgia captain. Image identification has many criteria (period inscription, comparison to other known portraits of the sitter and uniform identification are key). This image failed to meet all three, and therefore must be categorized as an unidentified image for now. I thank Chip and all the other folks who offered opinions, especially Bob Anderson, who offered an impressive analysis of the sitter's uniform, for their time and effort.