Bust view of Chalmers in Confederate uniform. Image is crisp and clear. A small line in ink is next to the head. His name is written in ink at bottom of mount. E. & H.T. Anthony, New York backmark.

James Ronald Chalmers (January 11, 1831 – April 9, 1898) was a lawyer and politician, a state senator in Mississippi and United States Congressman, beginning in 1876.

Chalmers had served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Initially commissioned as a captain of infantry, he reached the rank of brigadier general and was a noted cavalry commander involved in numerous actions. General Chalmers bore a conspicuous part in the Battle of Fort Pillow and in all the campaigns of Forrest in north Mississippi, west Tennessee and Kentucky. He also led forces in John Bell Hood's Tennessee Campaign. On February 18, 1865, Chalmers was put in command of all the Mississippi cavalry in the Confederate service in Mississippi and west Tennessee.

After the war he got into politics but eventually went back to his law practice and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, where he died in April 1898.  [jet] [ph:jet]

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