A Confederate captain, carrying a holstered sidearm, sits on a crude chair and table fashioned from a tree trunk. Part of the trunk is artfully placed on top of the table. Broken branches and leaves are scattered across the studio floor, and a limb in the background completes this rustic scene. Perhaps the officer—his name now lost to time—reenacted a camp scene. Note the missing button on his frock coat.
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