NC Officer

[relichound]

View attachment 56043 Found in Warren County, N.C. some years ago this Confederate captain's ambrotype came cased with
two civilian photos...one an ambrotype of a young girl maybe about age ten and one
a daguerreotype of an older girl. We think the ambrotype may have been his daughter and
the dag. an older photo of perhaps his wife. https://www.flickr.com/photos/44757478@N07/6684230631/

Also included is another smaller ambrotype which came with the larger and this one is the same
officer, without the hat, and this one is cracked. I was thinking that the captain was Capt. John
Ashford (later Colonel) of the 38th North Carolina regiment. It is said that he had a condition
where his fingers were long and thin almost like a skeleton's fingers and one of these photos
seems to show that. But Col. Ashford married and had children, but daughter born about 1870 and
too late to be the girl in the ambrotype. Unless she is not really any direct kin to him after all.
Any ideas as to his identity???

 

[Joshua Cude]

I have seen these photos, but I can not tell if it is Col. Ashford or not.

 

[Joshua Cude]

The small image is an original portrait of Col. John Ashford, and the one that was copied in Clark's Regiments. The larger one is the possible image of John Ashford. The facial features are almost all the same except the ear lobes. Ashford's ear lobes come down almost to the jaw line, where the other man's left ear has a more rounded lobe. I'm sorry Ashford's photo is so small, but I can't get it to upload any bigger.