Carte de visite portrait: Maj. T. G. Barker (Confederate uniform)
Book 1, Page 583 ·1861–1865
Transcription
A standing studio portrait of a young Confederate officer in frock coat and sash, his plumed kepi resting on a covered pedestal at his left and the hilt of his sword visible at his right hip. Captioned in blue ink:
Maj. T. G. Barker?
(over)
AI Notes
A single carte-de-visite-size albumen photographic print mounted on a tan album page. The subject is a young man with mustache, wearing a Confederate officer’s frock coat with shoulder straps and rank insignia, sash, and sword belt; his plumed kepi rests on a draped pedestal at his left elbow. Captioned in blue ink across the lower margin of the page in two lines.
The trailing “(over)” suggests a further inscription on the reverse of the mount, not visible in this scan. The identification appears to be tentative on the part of the compiler.
Theodore Gaillard Barker (1832–1917) was a Charleston attorney and Confederate officer who served as adjutant-general of Wade Hampton III’s cavalry command. He was the compiler’s great-uncle (brother of her paternal grandmother Susan Milliken Barker) and the household head with whom the eleven-year-old Amy lived while attending school in Charleston, c. 1899 — see book-002/p024. Her brother Theodore Barker FitzSimons was named for him.