Private Peter Jones of 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, with pistol.
Identity of soldier from dealer. Unable to link name with regiment in American Civil War database.
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Sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored
Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs; Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Record page for image is here.
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Civil War Portrait 073
by John Beauchamp Jones
OCTOBER 25TH.—We have nothing new this morning ; but letters to the department from North and South Carolina indicate that while the troops in Virginia are almost perishing for food, the farmers are anxious to deliver the tithes, but the quartermaster and commissary agents are negligent or designedly remiss in their duty. The consequence will be the loss of the greater portion of these supplies, and the enhancement of the price of the remainder in the hands of the monopolists and speculators.
The Southern Express Co. has monopolized the railroads, delivering cotton for speculators, who send it to the United States, while the Confederate States cannot place enough money in Europe to pay for the supplies needed for the army.
October 25.—Colliersville, Tenn., was again attacked by the rebels, who were repulsed and driven off.—One hundred and fifty armed guerrillas crossed White River, Ark., going north to operate against steamers at Council Bend.—The battle of Pine Bluff, Ark., was fought this day. —(Doc. 207.)
