A tintype of Sergeant John P. Mosley, a member of Company D, 13th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry and later assigned to duty with the 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry. When he entered the military on August 21, 1862, Mosley was 22 years old, married, a resident of Atchison, Kansas, and employed as a blacksmith. He was promoted to corporal on September 29, 1862, and sergeant on September 1, 1863. On November 16, 1863, Mosley was assigned to the 2nd Kansas Colored Volunteers. While serving with the 2nd Kansas Colored, he was wounded, left on the field, and taken prisoner by the Confederates at the Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas. Mosley died at Princeton, Arkansas, while a prisoner of war on May 9, 1864.