Offered here is a carte de viste (cdv) photograph featuring a bust image of Henry C. Johnson. He wears a 9-button frock coat in the photo. Image is on an untrimmed mount with typical ruled edge. There is light soiling overall and minor edge wear.

There is no photographer’s backmark, but there is an old pencil note, “Henry Johnson Senior lost in the Sivel War in battle of Wilderness”.

Of all the pages of Henry Johnsons who died during the war, only one closely qualifies as “the one”. Although noted on cdv as dying at the battle of the Wilderness, the battle of Spotsylvania was just days later and the family probably would never know the difference.

Henry Clay Johnson was born in 1839 in Monongahela City, Pennsylvania. He enlisted on 9/1/1862 as a Private in Company "I" of the 139th Pennsylvania Infantry. Promoted to Corporal on 9/1/1863. Wounded at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on 5/12/1864, dying of that wound on 5/29/1864 at Washington, DC. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. [jet][ph:L]

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