Oval waist-up portrait of Pearce in civilian clothes. Period ink signature on lower edge of mount. The top corners of the mount were trimmed and there is some chipping along the bottom edge. No backmark. Some modern pencil notes on reverse.

Nicholas Bartlett Pearce (commonly known as N. Bart Pearce) (July 20, 1828 – March 8, 1894) was a brigadier general in the Arkansas State Troops during the American Civil War. He led a brigade of infantry in one of the war's earliest battles in the Trans-Mississippi Theater before serving as a commissary officer in the Confederate States Army for the rest of the war.

Pearce's brief field command ended shortly after the battle of Wilson's Creek when Arkansas authorities attempted to transfer his brigade to Confederate service. Pearce's troops were polled as to whether they wanted to be transferred to Confederate command as had been arranged prior to the battle. Brig. Gen. Pearce campaigned against joining the Confederate States Army. Soon all organized state troops had either been transferred to Confederate command or mustered out of service.

From December 13, 1861, to the end of the war, Pearce served as a major in the Confederate Commissary Department in Arkansas, the Indian Territory, and Texas.

N. Bart Pearce died in Dallas, Texas, on March 8, 1894, at the home of his daughter-in-law. He is buried in Whitesboro, Texas.  [jet]   [ph:L]

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