1/6th Plate Ambrotype of a 8th New York National Guard with Pipe and Colt Pocket

Impeccable 1/6th Plate Ambrotype of a 8th New York National Guard member proudly sporting a Colt Pocket Revolver. My favorite part of the image is the pipe stuffed into his button hole and the gorgeous tinting on this image! There is not many more fine images than this one! 
History of the Regiment:
April 20, 1861, the regiment was ordered to Washington, D. C, and commanded by Col. Geprge Lyons, left the State on the 23d; it was mustered in the service of the United States April 25, 1861, at Washington, to serve three months; it served in the ist Brigade, 2d Division, Army of Northeastern Virginia, and was mustered out at New York city, August 2, 1861. Company I served as a light battery; see Varian's Battery.
May 29, 1862, the regiment again left the State en route to Washington, D. C, under the command of Col. Joshua M. Varian, and re-entered the service of the United States for three months; served principally at Yorktown, Va.; it was discharged and mustered out September 10, 1862, at New York city.
June 17, 1863, the regiment, commanded by Colonel Varian, left the State en route to Harrisburg, Pa., where it was again mustered in the United States service for thirty days; it served principally at and about that place in the ist Brigade, ist Division, Department Susquehanna, and was mustered out at New York city, July 23, 1863.
The regiment lost .in 1861: Killed in action, 9 enlisted men; died of wounds received in action, 1 enlisted man; in 1862, died of disease, etc., 6 enlisted men; total, 16; and it, or parts of it, participated in the following engagements, etc.: Bull Run, Va., July 21, 1861, loss, killed, 8 enlisted men; wounded, 17 enlisted men; missing, 4 officers and 9 enlisted men; total, 38; skirmishes, at Shippensburg, Pa., June 23, 1863; at Kingston, Pa., June 26, 1863; near Oyster Point, Pa., June 28, 1863; near Fort Washington, Pa., June 29, 1863, and at Carlisle, Pa., July 1, 1863.