INK SIGNED VIGNETTE BUST VIEW OF CONFEDERATE SURGEON JOHN P. FURNISS

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Image is a chest up view of Dr. Furniss in a partial left profile. He wears a medium colored double-breasted frock coat with the single star of a major on his collar. Beneath the image is a strong period ink signature of “MR. FURNISS.”

Contrast and clarity are good. Mount and paper have light surface dirt. Bottom of mount is impressed with “C. D. FREDRICKS & CO.”

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for “C. D. FREDRICKS & CO… NEW YORK, PARIS, HABANA. There is also some collector information in pencil.

Image is from the collection of the late William A. Turner.

John Perkins Furniss was born on September 24, 1841 in Columbus, Mississippi. He enlisted as a private in Company K, 14th Mississippi Infantry on July 1, 1861. He was transferred out on April 1, 1862 and was assigned as assistant surgeon in the Confederate Medical Department and sent to Poindexter Hospital, Macon, Noxubee County, Mississippi.

On January 20, 1863 he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in Charge of the 1st Mississippi Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi. He would remain there until February of 1864 when he was assigned to Confederate General Hospital in Shelby Springs, Alabama.

In June, Dr. Furniss was sent to the field as assistant surgeon of the 43rd Mississippi where he remained till the war’s end.

In 1866 he received his M.D. degree from the New Orleans School of Medicine and on December 21, 1876 he married Elizabeth M. Dawson. The couple would have two sons.

Dr. Furniss eventually took up residence in Selma, Alabama where he had his own medical practice.

Furniss died in Selma on December 3, 1909 and is buried there in Live Oak Cemetery.   [ad] [ph:L]

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