Nice, clean, chest-up view of Vaughan in Confederate uniform.

Contrast and clarity are outstanding. Paper and mount are excellent. Bottom right corner of the mount has a strong period ink ID that reads “VAUGHAN C.S.A.”

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for E. & H. T. ANTHONY… NEW YORK. Top has “VAUGHAN” in period pencil. There is also some collector information in pencil at bottom.

From the collection of the late William A. Turner.

Alfred J. Vaughan was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, May 10, 1830, and was graduated at the Virginia Military Institute, July 4, 1851, as senior captain of cadets.  He adopted civil engineering as his profession, and going West located at St. Joseph, Mo.  Afterward he was deputy United States surveyor for the district of California.

Returning east, he settled in Marshall County, Mississippi.  He was very much opposed to the dissolution of the Union, but when his adopted State, Mississippi, and his native State, Virginia, declared for secession, he promptly determined to abide by their decision, and at once raised a company for the Confederate service.

Since Mississippi was not yet ready to arm and equip this company, he went with most of his men to Moscow, Tennessee, and was mustered into service as captain in the Thirteenth Tennessee.  At the reorganization of this regiment in June, 1861, he was elected lieutenant-colonel.  From his first affair with the enemy he gained the reputation of a fighting officer, and maintained this renown to the close of his military career.

He was engaged in every battle under Polk, Bragg and Joseph E. Johnston, including Belmont, Shiloh, Richmond (Ky.), Perryville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and all the battles and numberless skirmishes of the Dalton-Atlanta campaign until the affair at Vining Station near Atlanta.  At Richmond he ably commanded his brigade.

At Chickamauga he was made brigadier-general on the field, and succeeded to the command of the brigade of Preston Smith, who was killed in that battle.  When he fell, Colonel Vaughan was near his side and immediately took charge of his brigade, and by skill and courage richly earned the honor bestowed upon him by the President of the Confederacy.

From the beginning of his career up to the battle of Chickamauga he had eight horses killed under him.  At Vining Station, July 4, 1864, his leg was taken off by an exploding shell, and he was permanently disabled for military duty.

After the war he returned to Mississippi and engaged in farming until 1872.  The next year he opened a mercantile house in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1878 the people of Shelby County elected him clerk of the criminal court by 6,000 majority.

He served officially as major-general, commanding the Tennessee division of United Confederate Veterans, in all the affairs of which he took a lively interest. [ad] [ph:L]

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