Lot 610: Mississippi Civil War Photograph of Joseph D. Shields, Killed

Civil War salt print depicting CSA Captain Joseph Dunbar Shields of Mississippi, seated and holding his sword. Framed under glass in a later oval gold painted frame. Note en verso states that he was a captain in General Stewart's Cavalry command, and was killed at Culpepper Court House in Virginia in 1863. Sight: 6 1/2"H x 5"W. Frame: 9"H x 7"W. Note: Joseph Dunbar Shields, Jr. was born 1840 to Joseph Dunbar Shields and Margaret Spencer Martin Shields of Mississippi. Like his cousins Thomas and Bisfield Shields (whose photographs are also in this auction), he sided with the Confederacy when the Civil War broke out. He mustered into Captain W.D. Martin's Company, Mississippi Volunteers, as a Private in May of 1861. (This company subsequently became Company A, Jeff Davis Legion Mississippi Cavalry.) He was mortally wounded in action.

PROVENANCE: By descent in the family of the sitter.

CONDITION: Fading to image. Not examined out of frame.