Earlier I posted a picture of what appears to be the Company F canine companion. There are other "nonmilitary types" in various 3rd MA images but the one I find most intriguing is that of a boy, roughly 8-14 years of age, sitting at the edge of the "patio" where a group of Co. F & K officers posed after the war's end, awaiting the return to their Massachusetts homes. Presumably he was a Washington, DC local, employed by the officers to tend to their barracks, which the building appears to be. I'm sure he had quite a story to tell.
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