Offered here is a nice carte de visite (CDV) photograph of Lieutenant John Lufburrow Branch in uniform.

This is an oval, waist up image of Branch wearing a single-breasted frock coat with fringed dress epaulettes. Photo is clear with good contrast. Image is pasted to a plain untrimmed mount. Below the photo, written in brown ink is “Lieut JL Branch / CSA / Adjutant of the 8^th Reg Ga / Volunteers. / [???] at Manassas Jul 2[1]”.  Back of mount is blank.

John Lufburrow Branch was born March 4, 1838 in Savannah, GA. Prior to the war he worked as a clerk in a Corn House. He enlisted on an unrecorded date as a Lieutenant in the 1^st Georgia Infantry. Existing, and confusing, paperwork lists him interchangeably as a 1^st or 2^nd Lieutenant early on. On May 12, 1861 he is assigned to the “Banks County Guards” as an “instructor in tactics”. By May 22 Branch is clearly promoted to 1^st Lieutenant. On June 1, 1861, he was commissioned into Field & Staff Georgia 8th Infantry as Adjutant. He was Killed on 7/21/1861 at Manassas, VA. He was buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah. There is extensive additional material about him online.

Ex-William Turner collection. [jet] [PH:L]

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