Three-quarter seated view in semi-profile of Colonel John S. McCalmont. Subject is seated at a marble top table. He wears a double-breasted frock coat with officer’s shoulder boards and dark trousers with a thin lighter color officer’s leg stripe. His forage cap sits on the table in front of him and is housed in an oil cloth rain cover. Image is very clean and clear. Contrast is good. There is a light strip of discoloration along the bottom edge of the mount. Just above this discoloration is a period pencil inscription that reads “Col. John McCalmont.” Back mark is E. Anthony of New York from a Brady negative. Back also has collector information in pencil.

John Swayze McCalmont was born in Franklin, PA. on April 25, 1822. He graduated from West Point in 1842. During his pre-war service he was assigned to the 3^rd and 8^th US Infantry. He resigned his commission at Fort King, Florida on July 1, 1843. He served as a lawyer, Judge and Pennsylvania State Representative before the Civil War. On June 29, 1861 he was commissioned Colonel of the 39^th Pennsylvania Infantry (10^th Pennsylvania Reserves.) He led his regiment south to Virginia but had to resign due to poor health on May 9, 1862. He served as US Commissioner of Customs from 1885 to 1889. He died December 2, 1906 in Washington, D.C. and is buried in Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, PA.