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Apr 26, 2025
Leather album with belt-motif and brass clasp containing 36 albumen carte-de-visite (CDV) portraits of Civil War high-ranking officers. Most portraits are identified by either contemporary or modern inscriptions. Photographer's imprints as shown.
Notable portraits include: Major General Philip Sheridan, George Armstrong Custer, Brvt. Major Genl. and Medal of Honor recipient Charles Henry Smith (MOH) accompanied by a clipped signature, Medal of Honor recipient Brvt. Maj. Genl. William Wells, and an exceedingly scarce view of Brig. Genl. Wesley Merritt staring straight into the photographer's lens.
Other Union subjects include: Maj. Genl. John Buford; Brvt. Maj. Genl. David McMurtrie Gregg; Maj. Genl. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick; Maj. Genl. Alfred Pleasonton; Brvt. Maj. Genl. Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert; Brig. Genl. George Dashiell Bayard; Brig. Genl. "Alfred" Napoléon Duffié (albumen unmounted); Brig. Genl. John Baillie McIntosh; Brvt. Major Genl. John Porter Hatch; Colonel Ulric Dahlgren; Brvt. Maj. Genl. Philip St. George Cooke; Brvt. Maj. Genl. August V. Kautz; Brvt. Maj. Genl. Thomas C. Devin; Brvt. Maj. Genl. William W. Averell; Major General George Stoneman; Brvt. Major Genl. George Henry Chapman; Colonel John Franklin Farnsworth; Maj. Genl. Julius Stahel; Brig. Genl. Joseph T. Copeland; Lt. Col. Lucius Manlius Sargent; Brvt. Brig. Genl. Thornton F. Brodhead; Maj. Genl. James W. Forsyth; Brvt. Maj. Genl. Benjamin Grierson; and Brig. Genl. Albert Lindley Lee; Major Genl. Henry E. Davies; Brig. Genl. Charles Russell Lowell; Brvt. Major Genl. Napoleon Bonaparte Buford; and General Jefferson C. Davis.
The album also includes three Confederate portraits: Colonel John S. Mosby (vignetted, in uniform, tear to image); Maj. Genl. Fitzhugh Lee; and Lt. Col. Harry W. Gilmore.
A fine collection.
[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards]
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