Portrait of John R. Brown. Printed on back: "Y. Day, photographer. No. 338 Main Street, Memphis, Tenn." Handwritten on back: John R. Brown, as he appeared Sept. 28th 1864 at Hernando, Miss. just released from Cahawba (rebel) prison, being then a private 8th Iowa Inft. Now a Lieutenant 59th [undecipherable] infr., October 28, 1865. He was captured at Memphis, Tenn. Aug. 21, 1864 by the Rebel Forrest [sic]."