Description:Waist-length seated frontal view of middle-aged man with prominent moustache in business attire. Both his hands are visible, pointing down. He ha a gold stickpin in the center of his white starched shirt.
Notes:Subject lived in Murfreesboro and was a CSA general. His first wife was Ophelia Maria Burrus. Gen. Palmer married next Margaret J. Ballentine Mason, widow of William Taylor Mason. The owner has a biography of the subject--a book titled Joseph Benjamin Palmer.
