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A very large framed photograph of John W. Faxon of the 14th Tennessee Infantry and lived in Clarksville, Tennessee. On the day Fort Sumter was fired on, John Faxon volunteered as a private in Capt. W.A. Forbes company of infantry, the nucleus of the 14th Tennessee Infantry. He was discharged after the Cheat Mountain raid in West Virginia, and returned to Clarksville, where he was made acting assistant adjutant general to Ge. M.G. Gholson, with the rank of major. After the battle of Fort Donelson he went to Richmond, VA where he was on detail duty for the Confederate Treasury department. He then joined the Second Richmond Howitzers, First Regiment Virginia Artillery. After the Wilderness battle he was on account of disability detailed for duty to the "Tax in Kind Bureau" in Charlotte, NC until he surrendered May 3, 1865. He returned to Clarksville, Tennessee after the war and went into banking. He moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee and was a member of the Nathan Bedford Forrest Camp, No. 4 U.C.V. and also a member of the Richmond Howitzer Association. He was colonel on the staff of General John B. Gordon, U.C.V. commander. The frame is approximately 17 1/2 inches by 21 inches. The photograph is approximately 10 1/2 inches by 13 1/2 inches. Written on the back in ink is information on John W. Faxon's Civil War career.