Full-length oversize albumen studio portrait of Captain John James Ward. 

Ward stands with a look of defiance in his Confederate officer's double-breasted frock coat. Though his collar rank is indistinguishable, you can see his sleeve braid on both sleeves. The crown of the kepi fades into the background of the image.

John James Ward (1819-1864) was born in South Carolina and moved to Alabama by the time of his marriage to Ellen Tyler Young in 1842. He was a plantation owner, enslaving dozens, and involved in politics serving as the mayor of Huntsville. 

In the spring of 1863, he raised Ward's Battery from Madison County, Alabama and the artillery company joined the Army of Mississippi, serving at Mobile until April 1864. Thereafter it was assigned to G.S. Storr's Battalion of Artillery in the Army of Tennessee. They saw action at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain and joined the brutal Atlanta Campaign. Near the Georgia capital on 27 July 1864, Captain Ward was mortally wounded by a fragment of an artillery shell. The Battery disbanded in October 1864 after the Fall of Atlanta. 

Portraits of Ward are exceedingly scarce. A memorial chalk-enhanced portrait of Ward is held at the Alabama Department of Archives & History (Q4316, Box 66, Folder No. 21). 

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