Full-length oversize albumen outdoor portrait of Joseph Harris Mason, Co. D, 20th Texas Cavalry. With modern identification typed label affixed to lower mount recto.

A fine postwar portrait of a Texas horse soldier aboard his mount. Identified as Private Joseph Harris Mason, who enlisted as a private on 1 September 1862 into Company D of the 20th Texas Cavalry. Assigned to the Trans-Mississippi Department, the regiment spent most of the war in Indian Territory and Arkansas, where it skirmished with Union troops, including at the Battle of Honey Springs on 17 July 1863.

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