[Private Joseph Tyler Jobson, of Co. G, 9th Virginia Infantry Regiment and Veteran Reserve Corps in United Confederate Veterans uniform with Confederate Veterans of Virginia membership badge and South

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1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 151 x 102 mm | Photograph shows identified soldier who was wounded in the face on May 16, 1864 at Drewy's Bluff, Virginia.

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Private Joseph Tyler Jobson served in Company G of the 9th Virginia Infantry Regiment. He was wounded in the face at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia on May 16, 1864.

This photograph was taken in 1924, sixty years after the war's end. Jobson wears a United Confederate Veterans uniform and displays a Confederate Veterans of Virginia membership badge. The South is also mentioned in the archive's description, though the specific reference is incomplete.

The photograph is a gelatin silver print, a process that became standard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, well after the war itself. During the Civil War, soldiers on both sides commonly sat for cartes de visite or tintypes before leaving for service, leaving an image with family. Exposure times of the period ruled out action photographs entirely, so the visual record consists overwhelmingly of portraits, camp scenes, fortifications and the dead after battles ended.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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