The objects pertaining to Private Phillip Fix, Co. "A," 113th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and include the following: a slender sixth-plate studio tintype showing a young soldier standing against a camp scene backdrop holding a Model 1860 saber; a loose Model 1851 cast brass belt plate; a Wichita, Kanasas 1902 Roster Ohio Soldiers; a notarized typed copy of the veteran's discharge papers with a Pension Agency postal envelope dated 1909; a photo of the subject's 1922 headstone.

Private Fix enlisted on August 22, 1862 and honorably served a three-year term, being discharged in Louisville on July 6, 1865. It is odd that, as an infantryman, he would pose for a photograph with a cavalry weapon and also retain a sword belt plate after the war. Perhaps the saber was a photographer's prop or perhaps he settled in Kansas after being in the postwar cavalry.

The discharge document is in fair condition only, being split and somewhat fragile; the objects are very good or better.