CHARACTER WITNESS
For decades, the tiny photograph of the unidentified young woman charmed—and mystified—scores of visitors to the old Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va.
She stared straight ahead, her hair parted down the middle and smoothed behind the ears. A watch chain double looped around her neck—the shorter one included a heart-shaped charm. She wore a black ribbon on the crown of her head. For eye appeal, the photographic artist tinted the young lady’s lips and cheeks pink.
In the summer of 1864, a Rebel plucked the image—a 1/16-plate tintype in a 1.5- by 2-inch case—as a
