This is a 4.25” x 6.5” cabinet card photograph of Carnot Posey in Confederate uniform. In this chest-up view, he is wearing a double-breasted Confederate General Officer’s frock. The collar insignia and the whole image extremely sharp and clear. The otherwise plain mount features a gilt beveled edge. There are no photographer’s imprints. On the back in period ink is, “Brig Genl Carnot Posey CSA.”

Carnot Posey (August 5, 1818 – November 13, 1863) was a Mississippi planter and lawyer, and a Confederate general in the Civil War. Posey was born near Woodville, Mississippi. He studied law at the University of Virginia. During the Mexican War, Posey was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the 1st Mississippi Rifles and fought at the Battle of Buena Vista, where he was wounded. During the Civil War Posey recruited a local militia company, the Wilkinson Rifles, who became part of the 16th Mississippi, with Posey being selected as the regiment's first colonel on June 4. He suffered a slight wound at the Battle of Cross Keys. Posey was promoted to brigadier general on January 18, 1863. During the Battle of Gettysburg in July, the brigade was part of Anderson's July 2 attack on Cemetery Ridge, conducting a "feeble, disjointed attack that was repulsed." At the Battle of Bristoe Station on October 14, 1863, Posey was wounded in the thigh by a shell fragment. Although the wound was not outwardly serious, infection set in. He died a month later in November, in Room 33 West Lawn at the University of Virginia, where he had lived as a law student. Posey was buried in the Davis family plot in the University of Virginia Cemetery. [jet][ph:L]

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