Carte by C.C. Giers, Nashville, TN, with enlargement instructions on verso. Henry Connor MacLaughlin (1833-1870) was the editor of the Mississippi Conservative in Vicksburg when he enlisted in that city on 4/10/61. Having earlier served as a captain in the Tennessee Militia, he was initially given the rank of brevet lieutenant and standard bearer but was soon transferred from the Vicksburg Company to the Quitman Light Artillery out of Jackson. Several other attachments followed, and he was at one point first corporal of Co. I, 36th Georgia, which later became the 1st Confederate Infantry, and a first lieutenant, captain, and brevet major in J.F. Kerr's Co. of Mississippi Artillery. MacLaughlin and his brother, Alexander, were both captured near Nashville on 12/16/64, and sent to Camp Chase in Columbus, OH, but both escaped any injury during the course of the war. After the war he returned to the newspaper business, working for the Nashville Daily Gazette, the Memphis Daily Bulletin, before becoming publisher and editor of the Murfreesboro Monitor. Lot accompanied by 3pp family history and biography compiled by his great-granddaughter.

Soiling and edge wear.  Uniform piping colored red (artillery).