Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Ambrotype |
Title |
Marlboro Jones |
Catalog Number |
1991.007.00004 |
Description |
Sixth-plate ambrotype with accent tinting; African-American man, seated, facing camera, looking at camera, hair cropped short, moustache and goatee, cheeks tinted pink; wearing double breasted uniform frock coat, ten buttons visible, tinted gold, wearing 2 canteens, one under each arm at waist with straps crossed diagonally below neck, left hand holding kepi, right elbow on table with a patterned cloth, top of hands tinted pink, camp scene backdrop with tents behind him; mat is flat gold, double-elliptical, with brading around opening; preserver has stamped floral scroll; no case handwritten on reverse: Marlboro-faithrul slave-who protected the women of the family while their husbands were in service-the Civil War. he wears the Confederate Uniform. |
Medium |
Glass/Metal//Paint |
Studio |
Unknown |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Owner Regiment |
7th Georgia Cavalry |
Provenance |
Posing before an elaborate camp scene backdrop wearing a Confederate uniform and burdened with canteens, Marlboro (or Marlborough) Jones exemplified the role of African Americans who served the Confederate army. Jones was the slave of Capt. Randal F. Jones of the 7th Georgia Cavalry and brought his master home to Savannah after he was mortally wounded at Trevilian Station, Virginia, in June 1864. Jones was immortalized not only in this rare portrait photograph but also as a character in Eugenia Jones Bacon’s 1898 novel, "Lyddy: A Tale of the Old South." |
People |
Jones, Marlboro Jones, Marlborough Jones, Randal F. |
Search Terms |
Black Confederates Savannah, Georgia Overland Campaign black soldiers Battle of Trevilian's Station Body Servants |
Subjects |
African Americans Ambrotypes Cased photographs Military personnel People of mixed descent Photographic studios Photographs Photography Servants Slavery Slaves War African Americans |