This rare portrait shows an identified Confederate noncommissioned officer, Sgt. Andrew Martin Chandler (left), and his named slave, Silas Chandler (right). It is the only Confederate photograph in the book by Rod Coddington, African American Faces of the Civil War. Born into slavery, Silas "was one of thousands of slaves who served as [body servants] during the war," writes Coddington. (Collection of Andrew Chandler Battaile)
![This rare portrait shows an identified Confederate noncommissioned officer, Sgt. Andrew Martin Chandler (left), and his named slave, Silas Chandler (right). It is the only Confederate photograph in the book by Rod Coddington, <em>African American Faces of the Civil War</em>. Born into slavery, Silas "was one of thousands of slaves who served as [body servants] during the war," writes Coddington. (Collection of Andrew Chandler Battaile)](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/10/30/chandler_custom-729bc13cc9daa41b5b9dccdd6ba8f801a1ec96c5.jpg?s=1000)