Late Victorian era sketch, executed 1880s from an earlier war-time photo image. Rendered in charcoal, the sketch measures 15 x 19.5”, mounted in heavy wood frame, with rich plaster gilt molding, wood backing & hang-wire. It exhibits a few light scratches, primarily along the right margin, but is otherwise clear and clean, as is the frame, with a handful of light and unobtrusive dings. Rear backing covered with heavy manila paper.

The sketch features Capt. Bozeman in a frontal, seated, studio pose - a bearded figure clad in kepi & frock coat, with a sword across his lap. His face and eyes exhibit the faraway look of a solder who has “seen the elephant”, and knows he’ll see it again, and will never come home.

David Lee Bozeman was a native of North Carolina who married and became a merchant in Farmersville, Lowndes County, Alabama. He enlisted as a 1^st Lt. in Co. “A”, the “James M. Calhoun Guards”, 44^th Alabama Infantry, Law’s Brigade, Field’s Division, 1^st Corps, ANV on March 15, 1862 and was elected Company A Senior 2^nd Lt. on 3/17/62.  Listed as Acting Company Commander on November and December 1862 and January and February 1863 muster rolls.  Promoted to Captain in March 1863.  Taken prisoner at Suffolk, VA on 4/19/63; confined and paroled on 4/25/63 at Fort Delaware. Led his company at Gettysburg in the fight for Devil’s Den. Severely wounded in the Battle of Chickamauga, he was mortally wounded on 5/12/64 at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse Wilderness and lies buried in the Confederate Cemetery at Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA.

A superb and haunting sketch of a southern soldier worth remembering.

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