The first item is a chest up image of Woods in a dark civilian suit. He is posed in a slight left profile.

Contrast and clarity are good. Paper and mount are also good with just some minor scattered surface dirt and foxing. Bottom front of the mount has a period pencil inscription of “MR. JAMES A. WOODS AT HOME 6^TH JULY 1865.” The notation is written over Mr. Woods signature making the rest of the notation difficult to read. All that can be made out of the bottom line is “Co. E.”

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for GIERS & CO… NASHVILLE, TENN. Reverse has a cancelled 1 cent tax stamp. Top has another period inscription that reads “BEANY FOSTER MARCH 6, 1873.”

The second item is a chest up view CDV of a young woman wearing a dark dress with a printed pattern and a high lace collar with earrings. CDV is an 1870’s copy of an earlier image.

Contrast and clarity are very good. Mount and paper are the same. Bottom front of the mount is marked BINGHAM BROS. MEMPHIS, TENN.

Reverse has a 1930’s ink inscription that reads “’AUNT FANNIE’ FANNIE FOSTER WOODS- SISTER OF DR. R. C. FOSTER & MARRIED TO JAS L. (LEONIDAS) WOODS THE ONE JAS. WOODS FOSTER I IS NAMED FOR. – ABOVE PER JAS WOODS FOSTER I & WRITTEN BY JULIA WOODS FOSTER 2/13/34.”

Both images are from a Tennessee album.

James Allen Woods was born in Belfast, Tennessee on September 30, 1837. He graduated from Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee and later taught school in various places until joining the Confederate Army.

Woods was enlisted as a private in Company E, 41st Tennessee Infantry on November 15, 1861. He was captured at Fort Donelson on February 16, 1862 and paroled. Then, on September 29, 1862 Woods was elected 2nd lieutenant and at various times commanded the Company. Records show he was present throughout his service with his regiment seeing action at Holly Springs, Raymond, Chickamauga, Atlanta, Peach Tree Creek, Jonesboro, Franklin and Nashville.

After the war he married Miss Clemmie Orr in 1868 and then studied at the Union Seminary of Virginia. For forty years after he served as a Presbyterian pastor in Tennessee and Texas.

Woods died in Bolivar, Tennessee on June 24, 1910 and is buried there in Union Cemetery.

Other than what is written on the back of her image, nothing is known of “Aunt Fannie.”    [ad][ph:L]

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