This public domain image shows Charles A. Fischer, in uniform, during the Civil War. Fischer was chaplain for the 32nd Indiana Regiment. Not to be confused with the other Charles Fischer who served as a Private in Company E of the 32nd Infantry Regiment 1861-65, this Charles Fischer enlisted on 16 February 1862 in Company S as Chaplain. Guess the war didn’t suit him, he resigned eight months later, on 9 Oct 1862. Fischer died in 1867.

The photograph was taken by Daniel Stuber of Louisville KY. Daniel was born in Germany, and emigrated to Ohio with his family at a young age. He was a daguerrian in Louisville KY as early as 1855. There was also a Michael Stuber listed in the 1880 census as photographer, probably related as Michael had a son named Daniel as well. In Craig’s Daguerrian Registry he says Daniel died in 1884, but gives his birth as 1842. The census consistently shows Daniel as being born ca. 1833-34, while Michael was born ca 1842-43. (If Daniel were born 1842 and worked as a daguerrian in 1855, he would only have been 13 years old!) There was a Daniel Stuber listed as photographer in the 1890 city directory for Louisville — it is not clear if that is this Daniel, or Michael’s son Daniel.