CDV is a straight on bust view of Mott M. Lindsay in Confederate uniform. He wears a light double-breasted frockcoat with the two bars of a 1^st lieutenant on his collar.

Contrast and clarity are good. Mount and paper have light surface dirt throughout.

Reverse has a period ink ID that reads “CAPT. MOTTE LINDSAY” with some collector information in pencil at bottom.

From the collection of the late William A. Turner.

Mott M. Lindsay was born on December 11, 1833. He was commissioned a 2^nd lieutenant in “The President Davis Guards” in Noxubee County, Mississippi on May 1, 1861 but was made 1^st lieutenant the following June 4. The Guards would become Company A of the 19^th Mississippi Infantry.

Lindsay led his Company during the Seven Days battles around Richmond and suffered a minor wound. He then resigned his commission to accept an appointment as aide-de-camp for General Cadmus Wilcox in August of 1862 and remained with that officer through the end of the war being paroled as a 1^st lieutenant at Appomattox.

Nothing is known of Lindsay’s post-war life other than he died on December 20, 1891 and is buried in Old Ripley Cemetery at Ripley, Tennessee. His headstone lists the battles he fought in during the war. They are listed on the stone in the following order: Dranesville, 2^nd Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania Court House, Seven Pines before Richmond, The Wilderness, Mine Run, Harpers Ferry, Antietam, South Mountain, Gettysburg, 2^nd Bull Run, Frazier’s Farm, Malvern Hill, Cold Harbor, Petersburg.

An image of Lindsay in his early war militia uniform appears in Vol. XVII No. 2 of MILITARY IMAGES magazine.  [AD][ph:L]

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