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                          Other Civil War-related CDVs are listed on the Political CDV page.

CWCDV9. H. Glosser, NY. Carte of standing bearded soldier.  Corners clipped. E. $75

CWCDV31. No ID. Unidentified image of soldier, arm on chair. VG. $85

CWCDV44. Warren, Boston. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. E. $85

CWCAB1. John C. Taylor, Hartford, Conn. Generals of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia-Portraits of Generals R.E. Lee, Longstreet, A.P. Hill, Ewell, Fitz Lee, Beauregard and Breckinridge, on one card. Great advertising piece on the back: "A gentleman living near Watkins' Glen, New York, wrote me that he thought twenty-five cents each, too high a price for the stereoscopic war views, as he could buy views of Watkins' Glen for $1.50 per dozen. I wrote him to this effect: if there was but one negative of Wakins' Glen in existence, and if Watkins' Glen itself was entirely wiped off the face of the earth, and if this one negative was old and "dense" and very slow to "print," and if all the people of this country were as much interested in a view of Watkins' Glen as they are in seeing the real scenes of our great war, so faithfully reproduced, then, and only under such circumstances, should Watkins' Glen Pictures be compared to photographs made "at the front" during the days of 1861 to 1865." Cabinet Card. VG. $200

    
CWCDV64. Landy, Cincinnati, Ohio. Unidentified image with 3-cent green tax stamp on verso. VG. $95

  
CWCDV65. No ID. Unidentified soldier with 3-cent green tax stamp on verso. VG. $85

  
CWCDV66. A. Hendrickson, Philadelphia. Unidentified soldier with 2-cent blue tax stamp, cancelled "A.H. 1865" on verso. VG. $95

  
CWCDV68. H.C. Van Syckel, Philadelphia. Unidentified soldier with 2-cent blue tax stamp on verso. VG. $90

  
CWCDV69. Keenan's Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. Unidentified soldier with 3-cent green tax stamp on verso. VG. $75

  
CWCDV73. No ID. "R.R. Eshleman, Captain Foster's Clerk," written on verso. VG. $125

  
CWCDV74. Washburn, New Orleans. Unidentified soldier with 2-cent orange tax stamp, cancelled Dec. 3, 1864, on verso. VG. $125

     
CWCDV78. Brady's National Photographic Galleries. "Yours Truly E.A. Chapman, Adj't. 5th Batt. N.Y. Artillery," penned on bottom of card. This is Eugene A. Chapman, identified as part of Companies G and C, 10th Regiment NY Heavy Artillery. Came in as 1st Lieutenant, mustered out as Captain. A little research has revealed the the 5th Battalion Heavy Artillery ("2nd Battalion Black River Artillery"), was organized at Sackett's Harbor, NY and mustered in September 11, 1862. Left NYS for Washington DC September 18, 1862. Transferred to 10th NY Heavy Artillery as Companies A, C, F, and G on December 31, 1862. This very nicely dates this CDV between September 11 and December 31, 1862, unless Chapman continued to write "5th Batt." after that date. E. $300

CWCDV79. No ID. "Arthur A. Russell" written on bottom of card. This soldier is listed as a Private in the 10th Regiment NY Heavy Artillery, Co. A. VG. $225

     
CWCDV96. Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, NY & Washington DC. Manuscript title on verso "Funeral car of the late beloved President Lincoln." Interestingly, mount has imprint of Brady's 1863 copyright line. Obviously his imprinted card stock lasted several years as this image was made in 1865. Rare CDV. VG. $2500

     
CWCDV110. No ID. Cut manuscript title from the album that contained this CDV is "President Lincoln and his Cabinet." Back is blank. VG. $85

  
CWCDV111. J.W. Dodge, NY. John Brown. Facsimile inscription "Your Friend John Brown." Quote on card is "His Soul is Marching On." at bottom recto is printed "Enlarged and painted by J.W. Dodge, from the original picture taken from life. Published by the Artist, 713 Broadway, N.Y. Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1865, by J.W. Dodge, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." With cut manuscript title from the album that contained this CDV. Back is blank. VG. $150

     
CWCDV119. Negative by Brady, published by E. Anthony. "Lieut. Gen. Beauregard, Chief Engineer of the Confederate States," in manuscript on verso. With cut manuscript title from the album that contained this CDV. Corners trimmed. VG. $250

     
CWCDV120. Negative by Brady, published by E. Anthony. General Fremont. With cut manuscript title from the album that contained this CDV. VG. $150

     
CWCDV121. Negative by Brady, published by E. Anthony. "Geo. B. McClellan, United States Army," in manuscript on verso. With cut manuscript title from the album that contained this CDV. Corners trimmed. VG. $175

     
CWCDV126. E&HT Anthony. "Joe Johnson C.S.A. Rebel Army," in manuscript on verso. With cut manuscript title from the album that contained this CDV: "General Joe Johnson of the Confeder't States Army." VG. $300

     
CWCDV130. Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Washington, DC & NY. "Rear Admiral Foote, United States Navy the clearer of the Mississippi River," in manuscript on verso. With cut manuscript title from the album that contained this CDV. Corners trimmed. VG. $250

     
CWCDV135. Brady, New York. "Maj. Gen. Anderson Hero of Fort Sumpter," in manuscript on verso. With cut manuscript title from the album that contained this CDV. VG. $250

     
CWCDV143. E&HT Anthony. "Gen. Lee Rebel Army," in manuscript on verso. With cut manuscript title from the album that contained this CDV. VG. $200

     
CWCDV147. Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, NY & Washington, DC. "Gen. Burnside," in manuscript on verso. With cut manuscript title from the album that contained this CDV. Corners trimmed. VG. $200

     
CWCDV179. H.P. Ross, Groton Junction, Mass. "Joseph Austin Bacon, Cornelia's Grandfather Bacon in Civil War," pencilled on verso. Looking him up it appears that he served with the 6th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry. CDV. VG. $125

     
CWCDV180. H.P. Ross, Groton Junction, Mass. This is the same man as in the previous CDV which has the following written on verso: "Joseph Austin Bacon, Cornelia's Grandfather Bacon in Civil War." Looking him up it appears that he served with the 6th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry. CDV. G+. $125

  
CWCDV197. Whitehurst Gallery, Washington, D.C. M.J. Powers, Photographer. This CDV came from an album of mostly NY and DC backmarks, including a number of Brady images. Beneath this image was written "S.L.M. died in a rebel prison." The other notations written beneath images were all correct so the album appeared to be as found. VG. $125

  
CWCDV198. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony. Major Gen'l Geo. B. McClellan. Brady's 1861 copyright line on bottom recto. CDV. VG. $150

     
CWCDV203. Barnard & Gibson, 1862 copyright line on bottom recto. Comte de Paris near Yorktown, May 1, 1862., along with the Duc de Chartres (his brother), Prince de Joinville and friends. Photo taken by James F. Gibson. Although titled in manuscript this is No. 357 in Brady's Photographic Views of the War. The image shows 5 men seated at a table playing dominoes and was taken at Camp Winfield Scott. Louis-Philippe Albert D'Orleans, Comte de Paris was an historian and journalist who volunteered to serve as a Union Army officer and was on the staff of Major General George McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac. His history of the war is a standard reference work. See CWCAB4 below for a companion image. G+. $300

  
CWCDV205. CDV of seated soldier with sword. Look like "12" on his hat. G. $150

     
CWCDV210. Label on verso indicates "sold by Guille & Alles, New York. General Sigel CDV. VG. $125

     
CWCDV211. E. Anthony from Negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery. CDV of General Wool. VG. $125

     
CWCDV212. D. Appleton & Co, NY. 1861 copyright line bottom recto. CDV of Gen Halleck. VG. $125

     
CWCDV213. E. Anthony from Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. CDV of General Burnside. E. Anthony's building illustrated on verso. VG. $150

     
CWCDV217. E. Anthony. CDV of General McClellan. There is a scratch in the print at the top left in the area of the drape o/w VG. E. Anthony building illustrated on verso. $125

  
CWCDV218. D. Appleton & Co., NY. President Jefferson Davis, Confederate States of America. CDV. VG. $125

     
CWCDV221. E. Anthony publisher from photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Leonidas Polk (1806-1864), "The Rebel Bishop." Polk graduated from West Point in 1827; left a military career and became Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana in 1841. Jefferson Davis convinced him to join the Confederacy in 1861. Fought at the Battle of Shiloh and Corinth; commanded Army of the Mississippi. In conference with Joe Johnston and William Hardie, he was killed by a cannon ball on June 14, 1864. VG. $150

     
CWCDV222. E. Anthony publisher, from Photographic Negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Genl. H.A. Wise. Henry Alexander Wise (1806-1876) Governor of Virginia 1856-1860; Confederate General. VG. $150

  
CWCDV224. A.K. Joslyn, ? Island, ? Harbor. The large black stamp of James C. Magoun, 2d Reg't Mass. H.A. obscures the location of this "Photographist's" studio. Some spotting. G+. $200

        
CWCAB2. Taylor & Huntington, Hartford, Conn. The War for the Union. Photographic History. This is a rare two-sided album card. On one side is No. 132. Officers' Dinner Party. This view was taken at Headquarters Army of the Potomac, near Brandy Station, Va., April 7, 1864. The sitters are not identified. They are being served by a black young man. On the other side is No. 6258. Effect of Bombardment in Petersburg. This view shows the ruins at the Richmond & Petersburg R.R. Depot caused by the bombardment. The first image measures 3 1/4" x 4." The second image measures 3 3/8" square. Two great images on this card. $750

     
CWCAB4. M.B. Brady. Photo taken by James F. Gibson. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 357. Group. Comte de Paris, Duc de Chartres, Prince de Joinville, and Friends, Camp Winfield Scott, near Yorktown, May 1, 1862. Brady's 1862 copyright line on bottom recto. Card has the stamp of Snow & Roos, San Francisco in left margin and a label from Roos & Wunderlich, Depot of Goupil & Co., San Francisco on verso. See CWCDV203 above for a companion image taken the same day. VG. $450

     
CWCDV229. Moulton & Larkin, Elmira, NY. "Rebel Pen," in ink on verso. Great image of Union Prison camp with crowds of rebels in view. 2-cent cancelled revenue stamp on verso cancelled on Oct. 22, 1864. CDV. VG+ $650

     
CWCDV230. Moulton & Larkin, Elmira, NY. This carte is also of the Union Prison camp environs. It shows Union soldiers in formation with cannon, bugler, etc. G. $500

  
CWCDV242. No ID. At bottom is written "G.S. Southwick." This soldier with sword may be Gilbert S. Southwick. There are 2 such-named men listed (or the same man in two different reg'ts), one in the 10 Reg't NY Cav. and the other inthe 2nd Reg't NY Mounted Rifles. G. $165

  
CWCDV244. No ID. General Nathaniel Lyon (1818-1861). Killed on Wilson's Creek near Springfield, MO. VG. $165

     
CWCDV247. J.A. Scholten, St. Louis, Mo. General Halleck. VG. $150

     
CWCDV248. Brady, published by Anthony. General George McClellan. G. $100

  
CWCDV249. Bradley & Rulofson, published by J.C. Goodhue & Co. Gen. U.S. Grant. VG. $225

     
CWCDV251. Brady, Wash DC. Major General Ethan Allen Hitchcock. G+. $175

     
CWCDV253. Rockwell & Co., NY. Dwight Chapman is ID'd on back in pencil. Kepi shows "34" and "G." 34th Massachuesetts Infantry, wounded in action at Fishers Hill; Killed in action, Cedar Creek. Chapman's cousin, Thomas Wagner mustered in on same date into 34th Mass. Co. G, was wounded on same day and killed on same day at Chapman. With complete National Archives Records on both men. VG. $250

     
CWCDV255. No ID. CDV of Joseph Gilman, 5th Maine Infantry and 12th Maine Infantry. Along with accompanying note directing town treasurer to pay Gilman $75 bonus. Very faint pencil writing at top that reads "J. Gxxxxx 5th Maine....". Also "5th Maine Inf" and "12th Maine Inf" beneath. Saw action at 1st Bull Run/Manassas. With complete National Archives Records. VG. $200

     
CWCDV256. M.B. Brady, copyright 1862. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 400. Confederate, Now Federal Quartermaster's Department, Yorktown. Black man with horse on left. VG. $375

     
CWCDV257. Kimberly Bros. National Gallery, Fortress Monroe. Major John A. Darling, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. The image has a period identification from the original album of "Major Darling." Official military records from the National Archives show he received his commission from the Governor of Pennsylvania and commanded the Post and Battery (Monroe) during March and April of 1863. Records show him present during July of 1863 when portion of Regiment ordered to Gettysburg. With complete National Archives Records as well as other material. Clipped corners. VG. $225

     
CWCDV258. No ID. 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Lieutenant Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1844-1917), Wounded in Action, Petersburg (partially blinded); later became President of Brown University (1889-1908). Cancelled, 2-cent revenue stamp on back. CDV has been clipped at corners and trimmed at bottom. With information from the American Civil War Research Database and additional supporting documentation. G. $275

     
CWCDV259. Warren, Cambridgeport, Mass. Officer Charles H. Manning, United States Navy. Period ID on back of card. Assistant Engineer 1863 with promotions and with Naval Service until 1884. Navy records from the National Archives has Manning on the Union Steam Vessel Mary Sanford. Also served on other CW vessels. With records from archives and copy of pages from List of Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps from 1775 to 1900 related to Manning. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

     
CWCDV262. Brady/Anthony. General Nathaniel P. Banks. VG. $150

     
CWCDV263. Brady/Anthony. General Nathaniel P. Banks. VG. $150

     
CWCDV264. Brady/Anthony. General Nathaniel P. Banks. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $125

     
CWCDV265. Case & Getchell, Boston. General Nathaniel P. Banks.  VG. $125

     
CWCDV266. Brady/Anthony. General Burnside. Tinted. VG. $165

  
CWCDV267. No ID. General Burnside. VG. $125

     
CWCDV270. Brady/Anthony. Major General John G. Foster (1823-1874).
John Gray Foster was a career military officer in the US Army; his most distinguished services were in North and South Carolina. A postbellum expert in underwater demolition, he wrote the definitive treatise on the subject.

Foster was born in Whitefield, New Hampshire. When he was ten, his family moved to Nashua, where he attended the local schools before enrolling in the Hancock Academy. He graduated from West Point in 1846 fourth in his class and served as an engineer during the Mexican-American War. He served under Winfield Scott and was severely wounded at the Battle of Molino del Rey. He won two brevet promotions for bravery. After the war, Foster returned to West Point as an instructor. In 1858 he was on engineering duty in Charleston Harbor, where he helped in the construction of Fort Sumter.

Promoted to captain of U.S. engineers, Foster was in command of the garrison at Fort Moultrie when the Civil War began. He immediately transferred his small force to Fort Sumter and became second-in-command to Major Robert Anderson during the Battle of Fort Sumter. Foster was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers on October 23, 1861, and commanded the 1st Brigade in Ambrose Burnside's North Carolina Expedition. He was conspicuous in action at the battles of Roanoke Island and New Bern. After the Battle of Roanoke Island, the Confederate Fort Bartow was renamed Fort Foster in honor of General Foster.

After General Burnside was transferred to Virginia, Foster assumed command of the Department of North Carolina. He was promoted to major general of volunteers on 18 July, 1862, and led the Goldsboro Expedition. During James Longstreet's Tidewater Campaign, upon hearing of a planned Confederate attack on Washington, North Carolina, Foster personally assumed command of the defenses there. When Daniel H. Hill demanded the surrender of Washington, Foster defiantly replied, "If you want Washington, come and get it". Hill's forces besieged the garrison and two Union relief expeditions were turned back. Foster escaped the besieged city in order to personally lead a relief column back. Hill withdrew his forces shortly afterwards however. In December, Foster won a strategically important fight at the Battle of Goldsboro Bridge, resulting in the destruction of an important railroad bridge on a vital Confederate supply line.

In 1863, Foster was sent to Tennessee to assume command of the Department of the Ohio and its corresponding Army of the Ohio. He was in command only for a short time before he was badly injured in a fall from his horse. Upon his recovery, he took command of the Department of the South and aided in the surrender of Savannah, Georgia. He was making preparations for the surrender of Charleston, but his wounds forced him to relinquish command to Quincy A. Gilmore. Foster was placed in command of the Department of Florida at the end of the war, receiving a promotion to the rank of major general in both the volunteer service and the Regular Army (the latter being a brevet rank).

After the war, Foster remained in the army, being promoted to lieutenant colonel of engineers in 1867. He was involved in military and underwater surveying and became an expert in underwater demolition, publishing a definitive manual on the subject in 1869 that became the acknowledged reference work. From 1871 until 1874, he was assistant to the Chief of Engineers in Washington D.C. His final post was a superintendent of the Harbor of Refuge on Lake Erie.

Foster died in 1874 in Nashua, New Hampshire, and was buried there.

The John G. Foster Post #7 of the Grand Army of the Republic in Nashua was named in his honor. In 1900, Fort Foster in Maine was named in his memory. It is preserved as a park.

Reference: Eicher, John H. & David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001.

VG. $250

     
CWCDV271. Brady, NY. Major General Israel Bush Richardson.

Israel Bush Richardson (December 26, 1815 – November 3, 1862) was a United States Army officer during the Mexican-American War and Civil War, where he was a major general in the Union Army. Nicknamed "Fighting Dick" for his prowess on the battlefield, he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

Richardson was born in Fairfax, Vermont. He was reportedly a descendant of famed American Revolutionary War general Israel Putnam. He was appointed from Vermont to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. He graduated 38th out of 58 cadets in the Class of 1841. He was one of 23 classmates that would become generals during the Civil War. After some routine assignments, Richardson served as a second lieutenant in the Second Seminole War in Florida.

He received two brevets for meritorious service during the Mexican-American War; to captain and major for the actions at Contreras, Churubusco, and Chapultepec. It was in Mexico while serving under General Winfield Scott in the Army of Occupation that he received his nickname, "Fighting Dick," which would carry over to the Civil War.

He later served as a captain in the 3rd U.S. Infantry (a rank he achieved in 1851) at various frontier outposts, but resigned his commission in 1855 and began farming near Pontiac, Michigan.

When the Civil War broke out, Richardson was still farming in Michigan. He enlisted in the Union Army and recruited and organized the 2nd Michigan Infantry. He married Fannie Travor on May 18, 1861, in Wayne County, Michigan. When he reported with his regiment in Washington, D.C., General Winfield Scott greeted him with "I'm glad to have my 'Fighting Dick' with me again." Promoted to brigadier general of volunteers in late spring; dating from May 17, 1861, Richardson was assigned command of the 4th Brigade, 1st Division, in the newly organized army of Irvin McDowell. His brigade saw limited action at the First Battle of Bull Run near Blackburn's Ford, and in covering the subsequent Federal withdrawal to Washington.

He commanded several brigades in the Army of the Potomac and then the 1st Division of the II Corps during the Peninsula Campaign in mid-1862. He was involved in the fighting at the battles of Yorktown, Seven Pines, and the Seven Days. He was particularly distinguished in sharp fighting near the Chickahominy River. Following the campaign, he was promoted to major general on July 4, 1862. He led his troops during the Northern Virginia Campaign, fighting at the Second Battle of Bull Run, and again during the Maryland Campaign in September, when he was engaged at South Mountain.

Richardson's 1st Division played a key role during the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, attacking Confederate positions in the center of the Sunken Road in support of the 3rd Division of Maj. Gen. William H. French. After stubborn fighting, by 1:00 p.m., Richardson had gained control of the high ground in front of the apex of the defensive line, and his men enfiladed the remaining defenders in the road, which would gain the nickname "Bloody Lane" for the carnage. Richardson pushed forward beyond the road and was directing the fire of his artillery and organizing another attack when he was struck by a shell fragment.

Carried to the rear, Richardson was treated at a field hospital. His wound was not considered life threatening, and he was given a room in McClellan's headquarters, the Pry House. President Abraham Lincoln paid his respects to the wounded Richardson during a visit to the battlefield in October. However, infection set in, and then pneumonia, which claimed the life of the popular general in early November. He was among six generals to be killed or mortally wounded at Antietam.

His body was escorted to Detroit, Michigan. Large crowds lined the streets during his funeral procession to nearby Pontiac, where he was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Fort Richardson, a Texas frontier fort active from 1867 to 1878, was named for him.

The Israel B. Richardson Camp #2 of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War in Oakland, Michigan, was also named for the fallen general.

Card mount has been trimmed at sides and top corners clipped. Image is VG. $325

     
CWCDV273. R.A. Lewis, NY. Unidentified soldier with sword leaning on pedestal. Corners clipped. VG. $85

     
CWCDV275. Manchester Bros., Providence, R.I. Civil War soldier with hand on a CDV album on the table. G. $75

     
CWCDV278. Washburn, New Orleans. Unidentified Civil War soldier. G. $85

     
CWCDV280. Brady, NY. Unidentified Civil War soldier. VG. $95

     
CWCDV282. Brady, NY. Unidentified seated Civil War soldier. VG. $100

     
CWCDV287. J.H. Abbott, Albany, NY. Samuel Demars, 94th New York Infantry. Pencil signature on verso. Enlisted as Corporal, promoted to Lieutenant. National Archives Records (copy included) make specific reference to his presence at the Battles of Bull Run, Antietam, Chacellorsville, Gettysburg, among others. National Archives Military Records and a copy of a picture of the 94th Regiment Monument at Gettysburg accompany this CDV. Tax stamp on verso. VG. $125

     
CWCDV288. "F.C. Francis, Columbus, Wi. Negative Reserved," in manuscript on verso. 2-cent tax stamp on verso as well. In contemporary ink is written "A Civil War Veteran and a Friend of Henry Russell's. This CDV is either Henry Russell of a friend of Henry Russell. When I obtained it it was presented as an image of Henry Russell showing Private Russell in full uniform holding his kepi with the distinctive "23" in view.  Accompanied by Official National Archives Military Records of Russell: Wounded in Action, Carrion Crow Bayou, La., Nov. 3, 1863. Records include medical document showing a gunshot flesh wound to Russell's side and that he was hospitalized in a General Hospital in La., with the document signed by an Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army. As this image has a tax stamp, the image would have been taken after this wounding. VG. $125

     
CWCDV301. Kimball, Concord, NH. Unidentified soldier leaning on sword. Trimmed at bottom. G. $95

     
CWCDV302. Kertson & Thompson, NY. Unidentified Infantry officer posed with sword before backdrop, hat on table. G. $95

     
CWCDV303. S. Bruckner, Yonkers, NY. Unidentified officer, 17th Infantry. VG. $100

     
CWCDV304. T.M. Schleier, Nashville, Tennessee. Unidentified officer posed before backdrop with a camp scene. VG. $100

     
CWCDV307. J. Gurney & Son. Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth. Verso presents the mysterious text of several letters, one from a friend of Ellsworth's, one from Ellsworth himself (apparently after his death!), and one from J. Gurney & Son. VG. $225

     
CWCDV314. Brady, NY. Unidentified enlisted man. VG. $125

     
CWCDV321. Jno. Holyland, Washington, DC. Manuscript on verso "Yours Respectfully John W. Ogden, Co. D, 13th N.J. Vols. P.O. Newark, N.J." This CDV of Sgt. Ogden is trimmed at bottom and looks like a bit at top as well o/w image is VG. $195

     
CWCDV322. Davis Brothers, Portsmouth (NH). Manuscript on verso "Web? August 1862." This infantry man looks like he has a "K" on his cap and several other letters than a "V." VG. $125

     
CWCDV325. H. Wyman, Boston. Generals of Our Army. Images of 9 Union Generals. VG. $65

     
CWCDV330. Brown, Easton, Pa. CDV of a tall, bearded soldier with rifle with bayonet. VG. $195

        
CWCDV331. Negative by Brady, Published by E&HT Anthony. Secretary Stanton, Secretary of War. CDV. VG. $150

     
CWCDV334. H.C. Foster, Photographer, Morris Island, S.C. Foster operated a studio on Morris Island during the Civil War and opened the Star Gallery in Charleston at the corner of of King and Market Streets in May 1865. For more information on Foster see Partners with the Sun: South Carolina Photographers 1840-1940, by Harvey S. Teal, pages 123 & 132.Keith Davis, in his book, George N. Barnard, identifies Barnard as the photographer of this image and pinpoints the date as March, 1865. This image is illustrated in the book on page 93, and suggests that one of the men with the 12 x 15 camera might be Barnard. It is also possible that rather than Barnard, Sam Cooley is in the image as he was apparently along on the same photo shoot. Fort Sumter in the background. E. $1200

     
CWCDV335. H.C. Foster, Charleston, S.C. Foster operated a studio on Morris Island during the Civil War and opened the Star Gallery in Charleston at the corner of of King and Market Streets in May 1865. For more information on Foster see Partners with the Sun: South Carolina Photographers 1840-1940, by Harvey S. Teal, pages 123 & 132. Fort Sumter. E. $325

     
CWCDV337. H.C. Foster, Morris Island, S.C. Foster operated a studio on Morris Island during the Civil War and opened the Star Gallery in Charleston at the corner of of King and Market Streets in May 1865. For more information on Foster see Partners with the Sun: South Carolina Photographers 1840-1940, by Harvey S. Teal, pages 123 & 132. In this volume Teal quotes a Charleston editor describing Foster's photographs taken on 14 April 1865 when the United States flag was restored to Fort Sumter: "The views of Fort Sumter taken at the celebration on the fourteenth of April will be recognized by all who were present, as near perfection as the artist could possibly have made it. There is the platform, the canopy, the high dignitaries seated on the platform, including General Anderson and daughter, and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in his white hat, the spectators seated in the centre, the gabions of the fort, the artillery on the parapet, and, just visible above all, the masts and flags of the steamers. The artist has lately received  large orders for these pictures from the North." This CDV shows the platform largely empty with crowds obviously waiting and many people on the wall looking out to sea, possibly awaiting the arrival of dignitaries. VG. $450

     
CWCDV338. C.D. Fredricks & Co., NY. Gen. John Porter Hatch (1822-1901). Graduated West Point in the class of 1845; in Mexican War twice brevetted for gallantry in the advance of Gen'l. Winfield Scott's army on Mexico City; wounded at South Mountain commanding 1st Division of Hooker's corps. VG. $200

     
CWCDV339. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Major General John G. Foster (1823-1874). Commissioned in the Corps of Engineers; severely wounded at Molino del Rey in Mexican War; chief engineer of the fortifications of Charleston Harbor, leading participant in the bombardment of Fort Sumter; participated in Burnside's North Carolina expedition; July, 1862 assigned to command the Department of North Carolina; succeeded Burnside in command of the Army and Dept of the Ohio in Dec, 1863 but relinquished command in Feb, '64 due to injuries sustained when his horse fell with him; in the last year of the war he commanded the Dept of the South and later the Dept of Florida. 2-cent tax stamp on verso. VG. $200

     
CWCDV340. C.D. Fredricks & Co., NY. Major General Quincy Adams Gillmore (1825-1888). Graduated West Point head of his class 1849; commissioned into Corps of Engineers; chief engineer of Port Royal expedition 1861-'62, which effected a Union lodgement on the Carolina coast; established mortar batteries on Tybee Island in order to attack Fort Pulaski which defended the water approach to Savannah; participated in the recapture of Fort Sumter. VG. $200

     
CWCDV382. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. General Irvin McDowell (1818-1885). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvin_McDowell for details of McDowell's life. G. $175

     
CWCDV384. Negative by Mathew Brady. Published by John C. Taylor. The War for the Union Photographic History. This is a small album card 3 7/8" x 3 5/8." 2348. Prof. Lowe observing the Battle of Fair Oaks, Va. from his balloon. Thaddeus S.C. Lowe (1831-1913), American Civil War aeronaut, scientist and inventor. In June 1861 Lowe met with President Lincoln and offered to perform a demonstration with his balloon Enterprise and a telegraph set. The President commanded Gen. Winfield Scott to see to Lowe's formation of a Balloon Corps with himself as Chief Aeronaut. Lowe's first outing was performed at First Bull Run with General Irwin McDowell and the Army of the Potomac. His performance was impressive though he had the misfortune of having to land behind enemy lines. Fortunately, he was found by members of the 31st New York Volunteers before the enemy could discover him, but he had twisted his ankle and was not able to walk out with them. Eventually his wife Leontine, disguised as an old hag came to his rescue with a buckboard and was able to extract him and his equipment safely.

Lowe's services were also used at Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg. Though he had the use of hydrogen gas generators (each balloon camp was assigned two generator units), the inflation time was long and Lowe saved the day by quickly transferring the gas from the "Constitution" into the "Intrepid" by cutting a hole in the bottom of a camp kettle and connecting the balloons at the valve ends. The process took fifteen minutes, a time savings he valued at 'a million dollars a minute.' The Battle of Seven Pines, also known as the Battle of Fair Oaks or Fair Oaks Station, took place from May 31 to June 1, 1862. G. $250

     
CWCDV385. Negative by Mathew Brady. Published by John C. Taylor. The War for the Union Photographic History. This is a small album card 3 7/8" x 3 5/8." Prof. Lowe inflating his balloon on Gaine's Hill, Va. (See previous entry for details on Lowe). G. $300

     
CWCDV387. Photographic Negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Oliver Otis Howard (1830-1909). Col. Howard commanded the 3rd brigade of the 3rd division during the battle of Bull Run and for his conduct during this campaign was made brigadier-general of volunteers.  He bore a prominent part in the movement toward the Rappahannock in the spring of 1862, and was then transferred to the Peninsula, where he participated in the advance against Richmond.  He was twice wounded in the right arm at the battle of Fair Oaks and he lost that arm by amputation.  In two months and twenty days after Fair Oaks Gen. Howard returned to his corps, and was in the Pope campaign in Virginia participating in the second battle of Bull Run, and during the retreat from Centerville to Washington, he commanded the rear guard of the army, which was under fire almost continuously.  In the Maryland campaign he commanded a brigade until Antietam, where Gen. Sedgwick was wounded, when he took charge of that General's division, which he also commanded at Fredericksburg. In November he was promoted to the rank of major-general of volunteers, and in the following spring he succeeded Gen. Sigel as commander of the 11th army corps which he led during the sanguinary battles at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.  In Oct., 1863, Gen. Howard's corps was engaged in the fighting in Lookout valley, and he received Gen. Thomas, commendation in further orders the following month, when he fought under Grant in the battle of Chattanooga, gaining distinction.  During Sherman's Atlanta campaign in the spring of 1864, Gen. Howard was in command of the new 4th corps, which formed a part of the army of the Cumberland.  When Gen. McPherson fell before Atlanta, Gen. Howard succeeded him as commander of the Army and Department of the Tennessee, and throughout the whole of the grand march through Georgia his corps formed the right of Sherman's army.  For his part in this campaign he was appointed brigadier-general in the regular army.  He commanded the same wing during the movement through the Carolinas, and assisted in the operations by virtue of which Johnston's army was forced to surrender in 1865.  For this portion of the campaign Gen. Howard was brevetted major-general of the regular army.  On May 12, 1865, he was assigned to duty in the war department in the bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands, in which position he remained until July, 1874, when he was assigned to the command of the Department of the Columbia.  In 1877, he commanded a successful expedition against the Nez Perces Indians, his infantry marching over 1,400 miles, and the following year another, nearly as extended, against the Bannocks and Piutes. In 1881-82 Gen. Howard was superintendent of the United States military academy, and from 1882-86 he commanded the Department of the Platte at Omaha, Neb.  In 1886 he was commissioned major-general and placed in command of the division of the Pacific, and after the death of Gen. Sheridan, and the assignment of Maj.-Gen. Schofield to command the U. S. army, Gen. Howard was appointed to the command of the division of the Atlantic, with headquarters at Governor's island in the harbor of New York.  He was placed upon the retired list, Nov. 8, 1894. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom o/w E. $300

     
CWCDV388. Photographic Negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Daniel Tyler (1799-1882). He became colonel of the 1st Conn. infantry in April, 1861, brigadier-general of volunteers in March, 1862 and served in the Army of the Mississippi at the siege of Corinth, was one of the commission, to investigate Buell's Kentucky campaign, and afterward was in command at Harper's Ferry, in Baltimore and in Delaware.  He withdrew from the army in April, 1864. Trimmed at bottom o/w E. $200

     
CWCDV389. Photographic Negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General James Brewerton Ricketts (1817-1887). His early service in the Civil war was in the defenses of Washington and he commanded a battery in the capture of Alexandria.  He distinguished himself in the battle of Bull Run, where he was wounded and taken prisoner.  For his gallantry on this occasion he was breveted lieutenant-colonel and commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, and after being confined as a prisoner of war and being absent on sick leave, he returned to duty in June, 1862, and commanded a division in the Army of Virginia during the Northern Virginia campaign, where he participated in the battles of second Bull Run and Cedar mountain and in the actions at Rappahannock station and Thoroughfare gap He also commanded a division in the Maryland campaign, taking part in the battles of South mountain and Antietam, was promoted major in the regular army, June 1, 1863, and commanded the 3d division, 6th army corps, under Gen. Grant in the Richmond campaign, where he was engaged in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor, and in the siege of Petersburg.  He was brevetted colonel for gallantry at Cold Harbor, and in the defense of Maryland against Gen. Early's raid commanded the 3d division under Gen. Wallace at the battle of Monocacy.  He commanded the 3d division, 6th army corps, Army of the Shenandoah, at Opequan, Fisher's hill, and Cedar creek, Va., and was severely wounded in the last named battle.  Gen. Ricketts was brevetted major-general of volunteers, Aug. 1, 1864. and on March 13, 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Cedar creek, and major-general U. S. A. for gallant and meritorious services in the field during the war. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom o/w E. $350

     
CWCDV390. Photographic Negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1816-1892). Meigs was born in Augusta, Ga. May 3, 1816.  He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1836 and assigned to the artillery; was transferred to the engineer corps in 1837; promoted 1st lieutenant in 1838, and in 1853 captain.  He was employed at first on Mississippi river surveys, and in 1839-41 was a member of the board of engineers for Atlantic coast line defenses.  He was subsequently superintending engineer successively in the building of Forts Delaware, Wayne, Porter and Ontario, and at Montgomery.  From 1852-60 he planned and constructed the aqueduct from Great Falls, Md., to Washington, D. C., and he superintended the building of the new wings and iron dome of the capitol extension, the extension of the United States post-office building and the repairs on Fort Madison, Md.  In April 1861, he was appointed chief engineer to organize and conduct the expedition for the relief of Fort Pickens, and in Oct. was sent to take charge of the building of Fort Jefferson. He was promoted colonel of the 11th infantry, May 14, 1865, and the next day was commissioned brigadier-general of staff and quartermaster-general of the United States army, the position he continued to hold until his retirement in 1882.  Gen. Meigs was engaged during the war in directing the equipment and supplies of the army in the field, generally from headquarters at Washington, but was present at the battle of Bull Run, engaged in the Chattanooga campaign, Nov., 1863, commanded Gen. Grant's base of supplies at Belle Plain and Fredericksburg, May 16-18, 1864, and was sent on a special mission to Bermuda Hundred, May 21-26, 1864.  When the national capital was threatened, in July, 1864, he commanded a brigade of quartermaster's employees.  He was brevetted major-general U.S.A., on July 5, 1864, for distinguished and meritorious services during the war.  He was stationed at Savannah, Ga., in Jan., 1865, equipping Gen. Sherman's armies, and in March was sent to Goldsboro, directing the opening of communications for again supplying Sherman's army.  After the war Gen. Meigs traveled in Europe, 1867-68, for his health, and again in 1875-76 to examine the organization of European armies as a member of the commission for reform and reorganization of the army. He was a member of the board to prepare plans for the new war department building in 1866; for the National museum in 1868; for the hall of records in 1878, and was architect of the building for the pension bureau.  He was retired from the army Feb. 6, 1882.  Gen. Meigs was a member of the board of regents for the Smithsonian institution and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.  He died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 2, 1892. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom o/w E. $225

     
CWCDV391. E&HT Anthony, NY. Major-General John McAllister Schofield was born in Chautauqua county, N. Y., Sept. 29, 1831.  His father, a clergyman, removed to Bristol, Ill., when the son was about twelve years of age, and in 1845 to Freeport, in the same state.  In June, 1849, young Schofield entered the U. S. military academy, being graduated in 1853 seventh in the same class with Gens. McPherson, Sheridan, Sill, Terrill, R. O. Tyler, and the Confederate Hood.  On July 1, 1853, he was made brevet second lieutenant of artillery, serving at Fort Moultrie S. C., and on Aug. 31, second lieutenant of the 1st artillery, stationed in Florida, 1854-55.  From Nov. 19, 1855, till Aug. 28, 1860, he was at the West Point military academy, as acting assistant, and then as assistant professor of natural and experimental philosophy.  While on leave of absence for one year he held the chair of professor of physics at Washington university, St. Louis, Mo., but when the Civil war began he waived the remainder of his leave, and was made mustering officer of Missouri, April 20, 1861, serving one month. By permission of the war department, he accepted the commission of major of the 1st Mo. volunteers on April 26, and on May 14 he received the rank of captain in the 1st artillery of the regular army, remaining, however, with the Missouri troops.  As chief of staff to Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, he participated in the engagements of Dug springs and Curran P. 0., Aug. 2, 3, and 4, and the battle of Wilson's creek on Aug. 10.  In the fall of the same year he was charged with the conversion of the 1st Mo. infantry into an artillery regiment, and with battery A, hastily forwarded from St. Louis, took part in the battle of Fredericktown, Mo., on Oct. 21.  On Nov. 21 he was appointed by the president brigadier-general of volunteers, and on the 26th he received the same commission from the governor of Missouri in the Missouri state militia, with orders to organize and equip a force of 10,000, to be at the service of the Federal government, within the limits of the state, while the war should last, and which should relieve the main armies for service in more important fields.  From Sept. 26, 1862, until April, 1863, he organized and commanded the Army of the Frontier in the southwest part of the state and in northwest Arkansas, driving the Confederates south of the Arkansas river, having been made major-general of volunteers on Nov. 29, 1862.  For about one month, April 20 to May 13, 1863, Gen. Schofield commanded the 3d division of the 14th army corps, but was assigned to the command of the Department of the Missouri, and retained it until Jan. 31, 1864, sending troops to assist Gen. Grant in the capture of Vicksburg, operating successfully to obtain possession of the line of the Arkansas river, and clearing the state of guerrilla and border war.  With the Army of the Ohio, of which he was in command, he took part in all the battles and operations of the entire Atlanta campaign, viz., the demonstration at Buzzard Roost gap, the battles of Resaca and Dallas, the movement against and engagements near Lost mountain, the action of Kolb's farm, the battle of Kennesaw mountain, the passage of the Chattahoochee and the battles near and siege of Atlanta, ending in the capture of that city on Sept. 2, 1864.  In October Gen. Schofield was sent by Gen. Sherman to the assistance of Gen. George H. Thomas in Tennessee commanding the troops in the field opposed to Gen. Hood from Nov. 3 till Dec.1.  Falling back from Pulaski to Columbia, skirmishing and from the latter place to Spring Hill, he finally gave battle at Franklin on Nov. 30.  He also participated in the battle of Nashville, which terminated the campaign, on Dec. 15 and 16, and was engaged in the pursuit of Hood's army until Jan. 14, 1865.  His commission of brigadier-general in the U. S. army was dated from the battle of Franklin, and on March 13, 1865, he also received the rank of brevet major-general, U. S. A., for "gallant and meritorious services" in the same battle.  Gen. Schofield then operated with Gen. Sherman in the final campaign against Gen. Johnston, and after the surrender he remained in command of the Department of North Carolina until June 21.  After the war he visited Europe on a special mission, relative to the occupation of Mexico by French troops.  From Aug. 16, 1866, till June, 1868, he was in command first of the Department of the Potomac, and then of the 1st military district of Virginia, as confirmed under the reconstruction laws. On June 2, 1868, he was appointed secretary of war by President Johnson, retaining the office under President Grant until March 14, 1869, and on March 4 of the same year he was made major-general in the regular army.  From March 20, 1869, till May 3, 1870, he was in command of the Department of the Missouri, and from the last date to July, 1876, of the Division of the Pacific.  Then until Jan. 21, 1881, he was superintendent of the military academy at West Point, and commander of the Department of West Point.  For a few months thereafter he commanded the Division of the Gulf, but on Oct. 15, 1882, he again commanded the Division of the Pacific, and on Nov. 8, 1883, he succeeded Gen. Sheridan in command of the Division of the Missouri, with headquarters at Chicago Ill.  From April 2, 1886, he commanded the Division of the Atlantic, and on Aug. 14, 1888, on the death of Gen. Sheridan, was assigned by President Cleveland to command the U. S. army, with headquarters at Washington, D. C.  He occupied this position until Sept. 29, 1895 when he was retired from the service, the rank of lieutenant-general having been conferred upon him on Feb. 5 of that year.  Gen.Schofield died of cerebral hemorrhage at St. Augustine, Fla., on March 4, 1906. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom o/w E. $250

     
CWCDV392. J.E. McClees, Artist, Philadelphia. William Farquhar Barry (1818-1879), brigadier-general, was born in New York City, Aug. 8, 1818; was graduated at West Point in 1838, and in that year assisted Maj. Ringgold to organize the first battery of light artillery formed in the United States army. He served in Mexico from 1846 to 1848, fighting at the Battle of Tampico, was stationed at Fort Henry from 1849 to 1851 and on July 1, 1852, was made captain of the 2nd artillery.  He served in the Seminole war in Florida and during the Kansas disturbances, and at the outbreak of the Civil War entered active service, assisting in the defense of Fort Pickens as major of light artillery. On Aug. 20, 1861, he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers and took an active part in the Virginia peninsular campaign until Aug., 1862, fighting in all the important battles. From the end of the campaign until 1864 he was chief of artillery in the defenses of Washington, having been appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 1st artillery on Aug. 1, 1863.  In May 1863, he was assigned to the command at Pittsburg, Pa., and Wheeling, W. Va., against a threatened cavalry raid, and was, from March, 1864, to June 1860, chief of artillery on Gen. Sherman's staff, taking part during this time in the siege of Atlanta.  During his service in the war he was given various brevet titles, culminating in that of brevet major-general, U. S. A., which was conferred on him March 13, 1865.  After the war he served on the northern frontier, then as commander of the artillery school of practice at Fortress Monroe, and as commandant at Fort Henry. He died in Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md., July 18, 1879. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

     
CWCDV393. E&HT Anthony, NY. Thomas John Wood (1823-1906), major-general, was born at Munfordville, Ky., Sept. 25, 1823.  He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1845 and was assigned to the topographical engineers, but requested a transfer to the 2nd dragoons, and on Dec. 2, 1846, was made a second lieutenant.  He served in the Mexican war, was subsequently aide-de-camp to Gen. Harney in Louisiana and Texas, and was adjutant of the 2nd dragoons until 1854.  He was appointed first lieutenant in 1854 and captain in the 1st cavalry in 1855.  He served in Kansas during the border troubles of 1856 and accompanied the Utah expedition under Albert Sidney Johnston in 1857.  0n March 16, 1861, he was promoted major, on May 9 lieutenant-colonel, in October brigadier-general of volunteers, and as such commanded a division in the Tennessee and Mississippi campaigns, being actively engaged in the battle of Shiloh and in the siege of Corinth. Later in the year he served under Gen. Buell in Kentucky; aided in the pursuit of the Confederate forces under Gen. Bragg; was promoted colonel of the 2nd cavalry on Nov. 12, and was one of a number of officers who were wounded in the battle of Stone's River.  He commanded a division of the 21st corps, Army of the Cumberland, till Nov., 1863, and was engaged in the battles of Chickamauga and Missionary ridge. He also took part in the operations for the relief of Knoxville and in the invasion of Georgia, and received a severe wound in the engagement at Lovejoy's Station in Sept., 1864.  He commanded the 4th corps during the battles of Franklin and Nashville and took part in pursuing the Confederate forces to the Tennessee River. In Jan., 1865, he was promoted major-general of volunteers and had command in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi until Sept. 1, 1866, when he was mustered out of the volunteer service. He was brevetted first lieutenant, U. S. A., for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Buena Vista, brigadier-general for bravery at Chickamauga, and major-general for distinguished service at Nashville.  Gen. Wood was retired from the service with the rank of major-general, June 9, 1868 (changed to brigadier-general by act of March 3, 1875).  He died at Dayton, Ohio, on Feb. 6, 1906. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $275

     
CWCDV394. Photographic Negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Fitz-John Porter, major-general, was born in Portsmouth, N.  H., June 13, 1822, son of Commander John Porter of the United States navy.  He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1845 and assigned to the 4th artillery, becoming 1st lieutenant, May 29 1847.  He served creditably at Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo, was brevetted captain for gallant and meritorious conduct at Molino del Rey and major for services at Chapultepec.  He was present also at the capture of the City of Mexico and was wounded at the Belen gate.  In the interval between the Mexican and Civil wars he served on garrison duty and as instructor at West Point became assistant adjutant-general with the rank of captain in 1856, and served during the troubles in Kansas and in the Utah expedition.  He was promoted colonel of the 15th infantry, May 14, 1861, and on May 17, was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers.  After taking part in the action of Falling Waters on July 2, Gen. Porter commanded a division in the defenses of Washington, 1861-62, and in the Virginia Peninsular campaign in the spring of I862, directing the siege of Yorktown, April 5 - May 4.  From May to August he commanded the 5th army corps, Army of the Potomac, and directed its operations in the battles of New bridge, Hanover Court House, Mechanicsville, Gaines' mill, Turkey tavern, and Malvern hill.  He was promoted major-general of volunteers on July 4, having been brevetted brigadier-general U. S. A. on June 27 for gallantry at Chickahominy, was transferred to northern Virginia in August and commanded his corps under Pope at the second battle of Bull Run, subsequently protecting Washington by occupying the right bank of the Potomac. At Antietam he commanded the 5th army corps under McClellan, and on Sept. 19, he fought with his own troops along the battle of Shepherdstown and captured four guns.  He was relieved of his command in November, and was ordered to Washington to appear before a military commission and answer charges preferred against him by Gen. Pope.  A court-martial was subsequently ordered, the first order being revoked, and on Nov. 25 he was arrested, the charges against him being made known on Dec. 1.  He was charged with having failed to join Pope at Bristoe on the morning of Aug. 28, and with having disobeyed two orders at the second battle of Bull Run on Aug. 30, one to advance and the other to retreat. The court-martial found him guilty of the charges preferred, and he was cashiered Jan. 21, 1863, and "forever disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit under the government of the United States."  The justice or injustice of the verdict was the subject of much controversy, and numerous appeals were subsequently made by Porter to have the case reopened. The clause providing that he should never again be permitted to hold office under the United States was remitted in 1882, and in 1885 President Arthur vetoed a bill which had passed both houses restoring him to his rank in the army, on the grounds that Congress lacked constitutional authority to pass such a bill.  In 1886, however, President Cleveland signed a similar bill, and he was re-appointed colonel, U. S. A., his commission dating from May 14, 1861. After leaving the army Gen. Porter was engaged in business in New York for a time; was superintendent of the construction of the New Jersey insane asylum, 1872-75; commissioner of public works in New York City, 1875-77; assistant receiver of the Central railroad of New Jersey, 1877-82; police commissioner of New York City, 1884-88; fire commissioner, 1888-89; and cashier of the New York postoffice, 1893-97.  He declined an offer made him by the Khedive of Egypt in 1869 to command his army with the rank of major-general. Gen. Porter died in Morristown, N. J., May 21, 1901. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Outdoor CDV with flag, trimmed at bottom o/w E. $395

     
CWCDV395. Photographic Negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Ricketts & Lady. James Brewerton Ricketts, brigadier-general, was born in New York City, June 21, 1817.  He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1839, served during the Canadian border disturbances, and took part in the Mexican war, where he was engaged in the battle of Monterey and held the Riconda pass during the battle of Buena Vista.  He was promoted captain in 1852, served in Florida against the Seminole Indians, and was then on frontier and garrison duty until the Civil war.  His early service in the Civil war was in the defenses of Washington and he commanded a battery in the capture of Alexandria.  He distinguished himself in the battle of Bull Run, where he was wounded and taken prisoner.  For his gallantry on this occasion he was breveted lieutenant-colonel and commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, and after being confined as a prisoner of war and being absent on sick leave, he returned to duty in June, 1862, and commanded a division in the Army of Virginia during the Northern Virginia campaign, where he participated in the battles of second Bull Run and Cedar mountain and in the actions at Rappahannock station and Thoroughfare gap. He also commanded a division in the Maryland campaign, taking part in the battles of South mountain and Antietam, was promoted major in the regular army, June 1, 1863, and commanded the 3d division, 6th army corps, under Gen. Grant in the Richmond campaign, where he was engaged in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor, and in the siege of Petersburg.  He was brevetted colonel for gallantry at Cold Harbor, and in the defense of Maryland against Gen. Early's raid commanded the 3d division under Gen. Wallace at the battle of Monocacy. He commanded the 3d division, 6th army corps, Army of the Shenandoah, at Opequan, Fisher's hill, and Cedar creek, Va., and was severely wounded in the last named battle. Gen. Ricketts was brevetted major-general of volunteers, Aug. 1, 1864. and on March 13, 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Cedar creek, and major-general U. S. A. for gallant and meritorious services in the field during the war. After the close of hostilities he commanded a district in Virginia until April 30, 1866 when he was mustered out of the volunteer service. He was retired from active service in the regular army, Jan. 3, 1867, with the rank of major-general, for disability incurred from wounds received in battle, and he died in Washington, D. C., Sept. 27, 1887. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom o/w E. $475

     
CWCDV396. Photographic Negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Colonel Rush Christopher Hawkins (1831-1920) of the 9th NY Volunteer Infantry, "Hawkins Zouaves." Hawkins was wounded in action at Camden, North Carolina. "Hawkins Zouaves" suffered their greatest casualties at the Battle of Antietam. Trimmed at bottom o/w E. $750

     
CWCDV397. Photographic Negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony, NY. George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), major-general, was born in New Rumley, Harrison county, Ohio, Dec. 5, 1839, and was graduated at West Point in 1861.  Being assigned to duty as 2nd lieutenant in the 1st U. S. cavalry, he arrived at the front on the day of the first battle of Bull Run and joined his regiment on the field. In the fall of 1861 he was ordered home on sick leave, and on his return, in Feb., 1862, he rejoined the army, being assigned to the 5th U. S. cavalry.  He served successively as aide on the staffs of Gens. Phil Kearny, W. F. Smith and George B. McClellan, was promoted to be a captain of volunteers and served throughout the Peninsular campaign of 1862.  He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in June, 1863, and placed at the head of a brigade of Michigan cavalry, which, under his leadership, became one of the best trained and most efficient bodies in the Federal army.  He led his brigade at the battle of Gettysburg, and distinguished himself by gallantry which won for him the brevet rank of major in the regular army. Subsequently his brigade was attached to Sheridan's cavalry corps, with which he served in the campaigns in Virginia, in the spring and summer of 1864, and in the subsequent operations in the Shenandoah valley, distinguishing himself by his bravery on numerous occasions.  He was then given command of the 3d division of Sheridan's corps, won the battle of Woodstock, and at Cedar creek his division recaptured, before the day was over, guns and colors that had been taken from the army earlier in the fight, together with Confederate flags and cannon.  After this brilliant success, Gen. Custer was sent to Washington in charge of the captured colors, and was recommended for promotion.  He was given the brevet of major-general of volunteers, Oct. 19, 1864, defeated Gen. Early at Waynesboro, and took part in the battles of Five Forks, Dinwiddie Court House, and other engagements of Grant's last campaign.  He received the first flag of truce from the Army of Northern Virginia, and was present at Appomattox Court House when Lee surrendered his army. He was appointed major-general of volunteers to date from April 15, 1865, having been brevetted major-general, U. S. A., March 13, 1865, and, after the grand review at Washington, commanded the cavalry in Texas in the winter of 1865 and 1866, and then applied for leave of absence to become commander of the cavalry which Juarez was organizing to drive the Emperor Maximilian out of Mexico. His request being denied, he accepted the position of lieutenant-colonel of the 7th cavalry and gained his first experience in Indian fighting in 1867-68, with Gen. Hancock's campaign against the Cheyennes, bringing the campaign to a successful conclusion by a decisive defeat which he inflicted on the Indians at Washita, I. T., in Nov., 1868. He first met the hostile Sioux in 1873, when his regiment was ordered to Dakota to guard the Northern Pacific railroad construction, and in 1874 he commanded an expedition to the Black Hills which opened up a hitherto undiscovered region of mineral wealth. Gen.Custer lost his life, June 25, 1876, at the fatal massacre on the Little Big Horn. Reaching the Indian encampment in a region which was little known, he did not wait for the rest of the army, under command of Gen. Terry, and, underestimating the strength of the Indians, divided his force of 277 troopers into three divisions, with which he made the attack. The Indians, outnumbering their opponents ten to one, killed every one of the soldiers. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom o/w E. $1200

     
CWCDV398. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Colonel Luigi (Louis) Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904); born to an ancient, ennobled Italian family di Cesnola had a glittering military reputation at the beginning of the Civil War. His father had fought for Napoleon. di Cesnola was educated at the Royal Military Academy at Turin, and entered the mounted arm of the Sardinian army. At age seventeen, the young count fought against powerful Austrian armies in Italy's war for independence. He also fought in the Crimea in the late 1850s. Finally, in 1860, di Cesnola immigrated to the United States, settling in New York. He married the daughter of an American naval officer and served as the director of a 700-student military school in New York. With the coming of war, he offered his services to the 11th New York Infantry, and received a commission as major as a result of his prior military service. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1862, before accepting an appointment as colonel of the 4th New York Cavalry. However, in February 1863, the dashing count was dismissed from the service for allegedly stealing six pistols, but he was exonerated, reinstated, and returned to his regiment.

di Cesnola was a loyal McClellan man, something that did not stand him well with either the administration or with the army's high command. In late May, a few days after Maj. Gen. George Stoneman, the commander of the Army of the Potomac's Cavalry Corps, took medical leave, di Cesnola complained to a friend that he was overlooked and should have been put in command.

In the aftermath of the June 9, 1863 Battle of Brandy Station, Brig. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton, now commanding the Cavalry Corps, placed di Cesnola under arrest for moving some of his men through an infantry camp while on the way to the front. At the June 17, 1863 Battle of Aldie, di Cesnola led his men into battle without any weapons, and in spite of the fact that his arrest meant that he had no command authority. As a result of di Cesnola's valiant conduct, Col. Judson Kilpatrick, di Cesnola's brigade commander, asked Pleasonton to release the count from arrest, and Pleasonton agreed. Di Cesnola was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor that day, something that undoubtedly rankled Pleasonton a great deal. di Cesnola suffered serious combat wounds and was captured and sent to Richmond's notorious Libby Prison.

di Cesnola had a fascinating career after the Civil War. At the end of the war, he published an account of his time as a prisoner of war in Libby Prison. In 1865, di Cesnola, now a naturalized American citizen, was appointed consul general to Lanarca, Cyprus, while the island was occupied by the Ottoman Empire. He remained there until 1876, illegally acquiring a large collection of antiquities taken from Cypriot tombs that he removed to the United States. He wrote a well-regarded book about his excavations and archaeological studies of the island, and his vast collection of nearly 5,000 items is on display in Harvard University's Semitic Museum. He also wrote a lengthy description of the collection when it was placed on display. The count sold his collection to the new Metropolitan Museum in New York, and then became the museum's first director in 1879, a position that he held until his death on November 21, 1904, at the age of seventy-two. di Cesnola's excavations remain an unhappy chapter in the history of Cyprus, which still views the collection as property of the State of Cyprus. He was buried in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, West Chester County, New York. More than one hundred years after his death, Cypriots often view the Italian count as a grave robber. Trimmed at bottom o/w E. $375

     
CWCDV399. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony, NY. Col. Michael Corcoran and staff of the Gallant 69th NY Infantry. Trimmed at left. VG. $1500

     
CWCDV400. E&HT Anthony, NY. General Michael Corcoran (1827-1863), brigadier-general, was born in Carrowkeel, Ireland, Sept. 21, 1827.  His father, a captain in the British army, gave him a good education, and procured for him a commission in the Irish constabulary in 1845. This he resigned, being unwilling to oppress his people and in 1849 he emigrated to America, locating in New York. He joined the militia there as a private, rose through the grades to the rank of colonel, 1859, and when Prince Albert of Wales visited this country, he refused to order out the regiment, the 69th, to do honor to the prince. For this he was subjected to trial by court-martial, that was still pending when the Civil war began. Upon the first call for troops, he led the 69th to the seat of war, and, being ordered to Virginia built Fort Corcoran on Arlington Heights, and then led it into the battle of Bull Run, where he fought with impetuous gallantry. He was wounded and captured, and spent nearly a year in various Confederate prisons, refusing to accept a release conditional upon his promise not to take up arms again in defense of the Union. Upon being exchanged, Aug. 15, 1862, he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers to date from July 21, 1861, and organized the Corcoran legion, which he commanded in the battles on the James, near Suffolk, in April, 1863, and in checking the advance of the Confederates upon Norfolk. The legion was attached to the Army of the Potomac, in Aug., 1863, and Gen. Corcoran was killed by the falling of his horse upon him while riding in company with Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, Dec. 22, 1863. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $350

     
CWCDV401. Photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony, NY. General Sanford & Staff. Col., Additional Aide-de-Camp, U.S.V., Brevet Brig. Gen. U.S.V. March 13 1865. Slight trim at left o/w E. $350

     
CWCDV402. Photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Stone & Daughter. Charles Pomeroy Stone (1824-1887), brigadier-general, was born in Greenfield, Franklin county, Mass. He entered the United States military academy in 1841 and graduated in 1845, when he was appointed a brevet second lieutenant of ordnance. A month later he was appointed acting assistant professor of ethics in the military academy, an office he held till Jan., 1846, when he was ordered to duty in Mexico.  He distinguished himself in several battles under Gen. Scott, was brevetted first lieutenant Sept. 8, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey, captain five days later for similar conduct at Chapultepec, and commissioned first lieutenant in the regular army in Feb., 1853.  In 1851 he was sent to California where he constructed the Benicia arsenal and acted as chief of ordnance for the Pacific coast. He resigned from the army in 1856, was engaged in the banking business in San Francisco for a year and then undertook a survey of Sonora and Lower California under a commission from the Mexican president. Just before the inauguration of President Lincoln, Mr. Holt, the secretary of war, called Lieut. Stone to Washington, appointed him a captain in the army and assigned him to the duty of inspector-general of all the militia in the District of Columbia then organizing for the protection of the national capital. On May 14, 1861, he was appointed colonel of the 14th U. S. infantry and three days later was made brigadier-general of volunteers.  He served in the Shenandoah valley under Gen. Patterson during July, and when Gen. McClellan assumed command of the Army of the Potomac, after the battle of Bull Run, Gen. Stone was selected to command a division and directed to occupy the valley of the Potomac above Washington as a corps of observation. On Jan. 5, 1862, he appeared before the Congressional committee on the conduct of the war and was rigidly examined as to every detail of the battle of Ball's bluff, which he had been accused of bringing on without due preparation. His responses were given frankly and seemed to satisfy the committee, but in February he was arrested and imprisoned in Fort Lafayette, N. Y. harbor, where he was kept in confinement for seven months without any charges having been preferred against him, despite his appeals to Sec. Stanton and President Lincoln for such a hearing as the military code provided for every accused officer. After his release he served in the siege of Port Hudson, was one of the commissioners to receive its surrender, and as chief of staff of Gen. Banks was engaged in the skirmish of Bayou Teche and the battles of Sabine crossroads and Pleasant Hill in April, 1864. He was mustered out of the volunteer service the same month and remained unemployed till August, when he was assigned to the command of a brigade in the Army of the Potomac, retaining it till after the surrender of Petersburg and then resigning from the army.  He was engineer and superintendent of the Dover mining company of Virginia from 1865 to 1869, and in 1870 entered the service of the Khedive of Egypt, becoming chief of the general staff or practically commander-in-chief of the entire army. For his valuable services in command, organization and administration he was decorated commander of the Order of Osmanieh Oct. 10, 1870, grand officer of the Order of Medjii Jan. 24, 1875, and raised to the dignity of a pasha in 1878. Early in 1883 Gen. Stone resigned his commission in the Egyptian service, returned to the United States and was appointed engineer-in-chief of the construction of the pedestal for Bartholdi's statue of Liberty in the harbor of New York, which proved his last work. Gen. Stone died in New York City, Jan. 24, 1887. Trimmed at bottom. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). VG. $375

     
CWCDV403. E. Anthony, NY. General McClellan and Staff. From left to right, Captain Clark, General McClellan, Captain Van Vliet, and Major Barry. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $300

     
CWCDV404. Photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony, NY. Colonel Wentworth, Colonel Lyon, Captain Varian, 8th Regiment NY Infantry. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $400

     
CWCDV405. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Hickscher, Clitz & Vannsalaer, 12th US Infantry. Henry Boynton Clitz was born in Sackett’s Harbor, New York on July 4, 1824. He attended West Point from 1841 until 1845 and entered the service on July 1, 1845 as 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th U. S. Infantry. He was transferred as 2nd Lieutenant to the 3rd U. S. Infantry on September 21, 1846. He was brevetted to the rank of 1st Lieutenant for gallant service in the Mexican War. He attained the rank of Captain on December 6, 1858. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Clitz was a Major in the 12th U. S. Infantry. He was brevetted the rank of Lt. Colonel on June 27, 1862 for meritorious service in the Battle of Gaines’s Mill, Virginia, where he was wounded and taken prisoner. He was exchanged and during the period of his recovery, was appointed Commandant of West Point. He became Colonel of the 6th U. S. Infantry and was brevetted the rank of Brigadier General on March 13, 1865. After the war, he rose to the full rank of General and was Commanding Officer of several different garrisons. In 1880, he returned to Detroit, his boyhood home, and was made Commandant of Fort Wayne. General Clitz retired at the age of 61 after 44 years in the Army. Henry Clitz disappeared on October 31, 1888 at Niagara Falls. It is assumed that he drowned but his body was never recovered. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $400

     
CWCDV406. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Major-General William Buel Franklin (1823-1903) was born in York, Pa. Feb. 27, 1823, and was graduated at the United States military academy at West Point, first in his class, in 1843. He served in the Mexican war as topographical engineer under Gen. Taylor, and so distinguished himself at the battle of Buena Vista as to win promotion to the brevet rank of 1st lieutenant. In the years between the Mexican war and the Civil war he was employed on topographical duty on the frontier, as engineer-secretary of the light-house board, assistant professor of engineering at West Point and supervising engineer in the construction of additions to the national capitol including the new Capitol Dome and in the erection of the treasury and post office buildings in Washington, D. C., rising in this interval also to the rank of captain, July 1, 1857. When the Civil war broke out he was promoted colonel of the 12th infantry, May 14, 1861, brigadier-general of volunteers, May 17, 1861, and major-general of volunteers, July 4, 1862. Gen. Franklin's first service in the volunteer army was at Bull Run, July 21, 1861, when he commanded a brigade and engaged in the heaviest fighting of the day around the Henry house. He received a division on the organization of the Army of the Potomac and when the 6th army corps was formed became its commander, continuing as such throughout the year 1862. He was in almost all the battles of the Peninsula, engaging at Yorktown, West Point, White Oak bridge, Savage Station, Malvern hill and Harrison's landing, and, after his return to Maryland with the army, commanded the left of the army at Crampton's gap, South mountain, Sept. 14, 1862, and engaged in the battle of Antietam three days later. At the battle of Fredericksburg he commanded the left grand division under Burnside. Gen. Burnside, by complaining that Franklin did not obey orders in this battle caused the latter to be sharply censured by the Congressional committee on the conduct of the war, and he was also removed from his command for insubordination. The failure of the president to approve the order of removal led to Burnside's resignation of his command. After several months on waiting orders Gen. Franklin returned to duty in July, 1863, and on Aug. 15, was assigned to command the 19th army corps, which he directed under Banks in the Red River expedition of 1864. He was wounded at the battle of Sabine crossroads, April 8, 1864, and was on sick leave until Dec. 2, 1864, when he was placed on duty as president of the retiring board at Wilmington, Del., in which capacity he served until Nov. 9, 1865. During his leave, while still an invalid, he was captured by Confederate raiders while riding on a train of the Baltimore & Philadelphia road, but made his escape the same night. He was given the brevet rank of brigadier-general, June 30, 1862, for gallant and meritorious service in the battles before Richmond, and brevet major-general U. S. A.  March 13, 1865 for gallant and meritorious services in the field during the war. He resigned from the regular army March 15, 1866, as colonel of the 12th infantry. He was adjutant-general of Connecticut 1877-78, was for several years president of the board of managers for the National home for disabled soldiers, and was interested in the manufacture of fire arms, was general manager of Colt Firearms, and a director of three insurance companies. Gen. Franklin died March 8, 1903. Trimmed at bottom. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). VG. $275

     
CWCDV408. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Major-General John Pope (1822-1892) was born in Louisville, Ky., March 16, 1822; was graduated at the United States military academy and appointed a brevet second lieutenant of topographical engineers in 1842; was promoted second lieutenant May 9, 1846, first lieutenant March 3, 1853, captain July 1, 1856, brigadier-general July 14, 1862, major-general Oct. 26, 1882, and was retired March 16, 1886. In the volunteer service he was commissioned brigadier-general May 17, 1861, promoted major-general March 21, 1862, and was mustered out Sept. 1, 1866. During his military career he was brevetted first lieutenant Sept. 23, 1846, for gallant conduct in the several conflicts at Monterey; captain, Feb. 23, 1847, for services at the battle of Buena Vista , and major-general, March 13, 1865, for services at the capture of Island No. 10. His early service included duty in Florida in 1842-44, in the survey of the boundary between the United States and the British provinces, and in the Mexican war. He was in charge of an exploring expedition in Minnesota in 1849, and proved that the Red River of the North could be navigated by steamers, on engineering service in New Mexico in 1851-53; and had charge of the survey of the route for the Pacific Railroad near the thirty-second parallel in 1853-59. In 1861 he was one of the officers detailed by the war department to escort President-elect Lincoln to Washington. His first service in the Civil War was as commander of the District of northern Missouri, from which he was transferred successively to the southwestern and the central districts, and on Dec. 18, 1861, he gained a victory over Gen. Sterling Price at Blackwater, and forced the Confederates to retreat below the Osage river. His next detail was as commander of the land forces that cooperated with Admiral Foote in the operations against New Madrid and Island No. 10, on the Mississippi. After the occupation of Corinth he was transferred from the command of the Army of the Mississippi to that of the Army of Virginia, and for fifteen days in Aug. 1862, he fought a greatly superior force of Confederates, under Gen. Lee, at Bristoe Station, Groveton, Manassas Junction, Gainesville and Germantown, and then fell back to Washington. On Sept. 3 he asked to be relieved of his command, and soon afterward was appointed to the command of the Department of the Northwest. He proved efficient in checking the hostilities of the Indians in Minnesota, and held that command till 1865, when he was transferred to the military division of the Missouri, subsequently the Department of Missouri. In Jan., 1866, he was relieved of this command; in 1867-68 commanded the third military district, organized under the Reconstruction act of Congress, comprising the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia; in 1868-70 the Department of the Lakes, in 1870-84 the Department of the Missouri, and from 1884 till his retirement the Department of the Pacific. He died in Sandusky, Ohio, Sept. 23, 1892. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). VG. $250

     
CWCDV409. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Major-General John Ellis Wool (1784-1869) was born at Newburg, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1784, son of a soldier of the War for Independence. He was for a time a book-seller at Troy and then a law student, but raised a company of volunteers at the beginning of the war of 1812, and through the influence of De Witt Clinton was made a captain in the 13th infantry in April,1812. He was badly wounded in his first battle, that of Queenstown Heights, received a major's commission April 13, 1813, took part at Plattsburg and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel. After the reduction of the army to a peace footing he was made colonel and inspector-general (1816). He was brevetted brigadier-general in 1826 and attained the rank by commission in 1841. In 1832 he went to Europe on a tour of inspection and witnessed the siege of Antwerp by the French. In 1836 he had charge of the removal of the Cherokees. In the early days of the war with Mexico he equipped and forwarded from the West 12,000 volunteers. Following them in person, he led 3,000 men from San Antonio to Saltillo and was next in command to Gen. Taylor during the later operations in the interior. At Buena Vista he chose the ground, disposed the forces for action and led them in the beginning of the battle. For his services here he received the brevet of major-general, and at a later date was presented swords by New York and Congress, with the thanks of the latter. He had command in the East, with headquarters at Troy, 1847-54 and 1857-60; was in charge of the Department of the Pacific, 1854-57, taking the field in 1856 against hostile Indians in the northwest. His promptness in reinforcing Fortress Monroe in the spring of 1861 secured that important post to the Union, and in August he was placed there as commander of the Department of Virginia. He occupied Norfolk and Portsmouth May 10, 1862, was commissioned major-general, U. S. A., six days later, and in June was sent to Baltimore to command the Middle Military Department. From Jan. to June, 1863, he had command of the Eastern Department and was stationed at New York, where he called on veterans to volunteer for the suppression of the draft riots. He was retired on Aug. 1, 1863, being long past the age for active service, and died at Troy, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1869. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). VG. $175

   
CWCDV410. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Major-General John Charles Fremont (1813-1890) was born in Savannah, Ga., Jan. 21, 1813 and was educated at Charleston College, from which he was expelled before graduation, although subsequently, in 1836, he was given his degree by the college authorities. He became teacher of mathematics on the sloop-of-war "Natchez" in 1833, on which he took a two-year cruise, and, on returning, passed the necessary examination and was appointed professor of mathematics in the U. S. Navy. He was commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the U. S. topographical engineers in 1838, while engaged in exploring the country between the Missouri and the northern frontier, and in 1842, having suggested a geographical survey of all the territories of the United States, he was sent at the head of a party of 28 men to explore the Rocky Mountain region. In accomplishing this he ascended the highest peak of the Wind River Mountains, which was afterwards known as Fremont's peak. He next explored the territory between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific, then a region almost unknown, and early in 1843 started with a party of 39 men, and, after a journey of 1,700 miles, reached Great Salt Lake. It was his report of this region which gave to the Mormons their first idea of settling in Utah. He proceeded thence to the tributaries of the Columbia River and in November started upon the return trip, but, finding himself confronted with imminent danger of death from cold and starvation, turned west, and, after great hardship, succeeded in crossing the Sierra Nevada range and in March reached Sutter's fort in California. His return journey was conducted safely by the southern route, and he reached Kansas in July 1844. He went on another exploring expedition in 1845, spending the summer along the continental divide and crossing the Sierras again in the winter. Upon refusal of the Mexican authorities to allow him to continue his explorations, he fortified himself with his little force of 64 men on a small mountain some 30 miles from Monterey, but when the Mexicans prepared to besiege the place he retreated to Oregon. He was overtaken near Klamath Lake, May 9, 1846, by a courier with dispatches from Washington, directing him to watch over the interests of the United States in the territory, there being reason to fear interference from both Great Britain and Mexico. He promptly returned to California, where the settlers, learning that Gen. Castro was already marching against the settlements, flocked to his camp, and in less than a month Northern California was freed from Mexican authority. He received a lieutenant-colonel's commission, May 27, and was elected governor of the territory by the settlers July 4. Learning on July 10 that Com. Sloat, commanding the American squadron on the Pacific coast, had seized Monterey, Fremont joined him and, when Com. Stockton arrived with authority to establish the power of the United States in California, Fremont was appointed by him military commandant and civil governor. Near the end of the year Gen. Kearny arrived with a force of dragoons and said that he had orders also to establish a government. Friction between the two rival officers immediately ensued, and Fremont prepared to obey Stockton and continued as governor in spite of Kearny's orders. For this he was tried by court-martial in Washington, and, after a trial which lasted more than a year, was convicted, Jan. 31, 1847 of "mutiny," "disobedience to the lawful command of a superior officer," and "conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," and was sentenced to dismissal from the service. President Polk approved of the conviction for disobedience and mutiny, but remitted the penalty and Fremont resigned. In Oct., 1848, Fremont started on an independent exploring expedition with a party of 33 men, and reached Sacramento in the spring of 1849 after more severe sufferings than those experienced on any of his earlier expeditions. He represented California in the United States Senate from Sept., 1850, to March, 1851, and in 1853 made his fifth and last exploring expedition, crossing the Rocky Mountains by the route which he had attempted to follow in 1848. Fremont's known opposition to slavery won him the presidential nomination of the Republican party in 1856, but in the election he was defeated by Buchanan, who received 174 electoral votes to Fremont's 114. Soon after the beginning of the Civil War Fremont was appointed major-general in the regular army and assigned to command the newly organized Western Department with headquarters at St. Louis. Soon after the battle of Wilson's Creek, Aug. 10, 1861 he proclaimed martial law, arrested active secessionists, suspended the publication of papers charged with disloyalty, and issued a proclamation assuming the government of the state and announcing that he would free the slaves of those in arms against the Union. This proclamation he refused to withdraw, and on Sept. 11, the president annulled it as unauthorized and premature. Fremont was relieved of his command, Nov. 2, 1861, many complaints having been made of his administration, but in March, 1862, he was placed in command of the Mountain Department of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Early in June he pursued the Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson for 8 days, finally engaging him at Cross Keys, June 8, but permitted him to escape with his army. When the Army of Virginia was created June 26, to include Gen. Fremont's corps, with Pope in command, Fremont declined to serve on the ground that he outranked Pope, and for sufficient personal reasons.  He then went to New York where he remained throughout the war, expecting a command, but none was given him. He was nominated for the presidency, May 31, 1864, by a small faction of the Republican party, but, finding but slender support, he withdrew his name in September. He subsequently became interested in the construction of railroads and in 1873, was prosecuted by the French government for alleged participation in the swindles connected with the proposed transcontinental railway from Norfolk to San Francisco, and was sentenced on default, to fine and imprisonment, no judgment being given on the merits of the case. Gen. Fremont was governor of Arizona in 1878-81, and was appointed major-general on the retired list by act of Congress in 1890. He died in New York City, July 13, 1890. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). VG. $250

     
CWCDV411. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Brigadier-General William Selby Harney (1800-1889) was born near Haysboro, Tenn., Aug. 27, 1800. He was commissioned 2nd lieutenant, 19th U. S. infantry, Feb. 13, 1818, and in the interval between the time of his entering the service and the Civil War he was continuously in the service of the United States, receiving frequent promotions, culminating in promotion to brigadier-general June 14, 1858. He engaged in the Black Hawk War, the Seminole War, the Mexican War, and in numerous engagements against Indians, commanded the Department of the Oregon, 1858-60, until his recall on account of border difficulties with England, and was then assigned to command the Department of the West, with headquarters in St. Louis. In April, 1861, while on his way to Washington, he was arrested by the Virginia troops at Harper's Ferry, but was soon afterward released, and, on returning to St. Louis, he agreed with Gen. Price in command of the Missouri militia to make no military movement within the borders of the state so long as peace was maintained by the existing state government. He was relieved of his command May 29, 1861, was placed on the retired list Aug. 1, 1863, and on March 13, 1865, was brevetted major-general U. S A. for long and faithful services. Gen. Harney died in Orlando, Fla., May 9, 1889. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). VG. $175

     
CWCDV412. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Capt. Henry Cotton Shumway (1807-1884), 8th Co., 7th Regiment, NYSM (Steuben Guard). 53 year-old Artist when he enlisted on 4/17/1861 at New York City as a Captain. On 4/26/1861 he was commissioned into "H" Co. NY 7th Infantry. He was MO on 6/3/1861 at New York. On 5/25/1862 he was commissioned into "H" Co. NY 7th Infantry. He was MO on 9/5/1862 at New York. On 7/20/1863 he was commissioned into "H" Co. NY 7th Infantry. He was MO on 7/20/1863 at New York. Shumway was born 7/4/1807 in Middletown, CT; died 5/6/1884 in New York City. He was a portrait painter. He attended the public schools; served as a clerk in his father's office until his twenty-first birthday, and at an early age produced pencil sketches, mostly portraits, of considerable promise. He attended the antique and life classes of the National Academy of Design in New York City, 1828-29; and established himself as a painter of miniature portraits on ivory in New York City in 1830, making transient visits to Washington, Hartford, and other cities. About 1860 he engaged as a photographer in New York City, in addition to his miniature painting, in which he had gained a reputation that gave him the sum of $300 for a portrait upon five-inch ivory. He was a member of the New York State Militia for thirty-five years: and aided in organizing the 7th New York regiment in which he was captain twenty-eight years. He became an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1831, and an Academician in 1832, and received a gold palette for the best miniature portrait in the art exhibition of the New York State fair in 1844. The subjects of his many portraits include: Henry Clay, Judge Storrs, Colonel Wadsworth, Daniel Webster, members of the Trumbull family, and a large head of Napoleon III., from life (1838). (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

   
CWCDV413. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Capt. George U. Morris (1830-1875) of the Cumberland. The Cumberland was rammed by the Virginia and sank with a loss of 121 crew members. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $325

CWCDV414. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Lt. Col. C.G. Colgate, 15th NY Engineers. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $275

CWCDV416. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Lightly pencilled on back it appears to read "Col. Mc Chesney," but I can't find any record of him. Trimmed at bottom. G. $150

CWCDV417. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Com. Chauncy. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $125

CWCDV419. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Major-General Henry Warner Slocum (1827-1894) was born in Delphi, Onondaga county, N. Y., Sept 24, 1827. He was graduated at West Point in 1852 and became second lieutenant in the 1st artillery.  After serving in the Seminole war in Florida he was promoted first lieutenant on March 3, 1855, and was on duty at Fort Moultrie, S. C., till Oct. 31, 1856, when he resigned his commission. He then settled in Syracuse, began practicing law, which he had studied while in the army, entered political life, was elected to the legislature as a Democrat in 1859, and from 1859 till 1861 was also instructor of artillery in the state militia with the rank of colonel. On May 21, 1861, he became colonel of the 27th N. Y. volunteers. The regiment left Elmira for the front on July 10, and eleven days afterward it passed through the first battle of Bull Run.  where its commander was wounded in the thigh. On Aug. 9, while confined to the hospital, he was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers. On his recovery he was assigned to the command of a brigade in Franklin's division, Army of the Potomac. In the Peninsular campaign of 1862 he took part in the siege of Yorktown and the engagement at West Point; succeeded Gen. Franklin in command of the division on May 15; reinforced Gen. Fitz John Porter in the battle of Gaines' mill, June 27; and, with his division, occupied the right of the main line in the battles of Glendale and Malvern hill. On July 4, 1862, he was promoted major-general of volunteers; on Aug 30 was engaged in the second battle of Bull Run; Sept. 14 was in the battle of South mountain; and, Sept. 17 added much to his brilliant record in the battle of Antietam, in the latter part of which he was assigned to the command of the 12th corps, succeeding Gen. Mansfield, who had been killed. He further distinguished himself at Chancellorsville and at Gettysburg, where his command was on the right of the army, and repelled a charge made by Ewell's corps at daylight on July 3. In October, after the drawn battle at Chickamauga, the 11th and 12th corps were detached from the Army of the Potomac and hastened to reinforce the army in the Department of the Cumberland. In April, 1864 Gen. Sherman consolidated the two corps into what was afterward known as the 20th corps, and assigned Gen. Hooker to the command. On this consolidation Gen. Slocum was given command of a division and of the district of Vicksburg. In August Gen. Hooker was succeeded by Gen. Slocum. When Gen. Sherman made his movement around Atlanta to the Macon road, he assigned Gen. Slocum to guard the communications, and when the Confederates left their entrenchments about Atlanta to meet the Federal army, Gen. Slocum threw his corps directly into the city. In the march to the sea and through the Carolinas, Gen. Slocum commanded the left wing of the army, comprising the 14th and 20th corps. From June 29 till Sept. 16 he commanded the Department of the Mississippi, and on Sept. 28, 1865, he resigned his commission, returning to civil life in Brooklyn. In the election of 1865 he was defeated as Democratic candidate for secretary of state of New York; in 1868 was a presidential elector; and in 1868 and 1870 was elected to Congress. He was defeated by Grover Cleveland in the Democratic convention of 1882 as a candidate for the nomination for governor of New York, and in the same year was elected Congressman at Large. Gen Slocum died at Brooklyn, N. Y., April 14, 1894. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. Trimmed at bottom. G. $200

CWCDV420. E&HT Anthony, NY. Major-General Henry Wager Halleck (1815-1872) was born at Westernville, Oneida, county, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1815. After a common-school education, received at Hudson Academy, and a partial course at Union College, he entered the United States Military Academy July 1, 1835, graduating four years later third in a class of thirty-one. On July 1, 1839, he was appointed second lieutenant in the engineer corps of the army, and from his marked ability and skill as an instructor, while still a cadet, was retained as assistant professor of engineering at the academy until June 28, 1840. During the next year he acted as assistant to the board of engineers at Washington, D. C., and was thence transferred to assist in the construction of the fortifications in New York harbor. Here he remained several years, with the exception of time spent in 1845 on a tour of inspection of public works in Europe,  receiving while absent a promotion to first lieutenant. At the outbreak of the war with Mexico, he was sent to California as engineer of military operations for the Pacific coast, and after a seven-month voyage in the transport Lexington, reached Monterey, Cal., which he partially fortified as a port of refuge for the Pacific fleet, and a base for incursions into California by land. In his military capacity he accompanied several expeditions; in that of Col. Burton into Lower California, he acted as chief of staff to that officer, and took part in the skirmishes of Palos Prietos and Urias, Nov. 19-20, 1847; with a few volunteers made a forced march to San Antonio, March 16, 1848, surprising a large Mexican garrison and nearly capturing the governor, and was engaged at Todos Santos on March 30. He was also aid-de-camp to Com. Shubrick in naval operations on the coast, among which was the capture of Mazatlan (of which for a time he was lieutenant-governor), and for "gallant and meritorious services," received the commission of captain by brevet, to date from May 1, 1847. As secretary under the military governments of Gens. Mason and Riley, he displayed "great energy, high administrative qualities, excellent judgment and admirable adaptability to his varied and onerous duties," and as a member of the convention, called to meet at Monterey, Sept. 1, 1849, to frame a constitution for the state of California, he was substantially the author of that instrument. On Dec. 21, 1852, he was appointed inspector and engineer of lighthouses; from April 11, 1853, was a member of the board of engineers for fortifications of the Pacific coast, receiving the promotion of captain of engineers on July 1 and retained all these positions until Aug. 1, 1854, when he resigned from the army to become the head of the most prominent law firm in San Francisco, with large interests and much valuable property in the state, with whose development and prosperity his name was identified. In 1860-61 he was major-general of the militia of
California, and at the outbreak of the Civil war tendered his services to the government, and was appointed major-general on recommendation of Gen. Scott, his commission dating Aug. 19, 1861. On Nov. 18 he took command of the Department of Missouri, with headquarters at St. Louis, where his vigorous rule soon established order. After the victory at Shiloh Halleck took the field, having, March 11, 1862, succeeded to the command of the Department of the
Mississippi, and the siege of Corinth took place under his personal direction. After the evacuation by the enemy, and in the midst of the fortification of Corinth against his return from the south, Halleck was visited by two assistant secretaries of war and one U. S. senator, to urge his acceptance of the office of general-in-chief, which had been tendered him, but which he declined until events in the Peninsular campaign forced his acceptance of the honor. From Washington, on Oct. 28, he wrote the letter which constitutes "the only official explanation of the final removal of McClellan from command, Nov. 7." After Gen. Grant became lieutenant-general of the army, Halleck remained at Washington as chief of staff March 12, 1864, to April 19, 1865 and from April 22 to July 1 of the latter year was in command of the military division of the James with headquarters at Richmond. On Aug. 30 he took command of the division of the Pacific, from which he was relieved by Gen. George H. Thomas, and on March 16, 1869, was transferred to that of the South, with headquarters at Louisville, Ky. Gen. Halleck died at Louisville, Jan. 9, 1872. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY. Trimmed at bottom. G. $100

CWCDV421. No backmark. Major-General Henry Wager Halleck (1815-1872). Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY. VG. $125

CWCDV422. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Major-General William Farrar "Baldy" Smith (1824-1903) was born in the state of Vermont, and was a cadet at the U. S. military academy from July 1, 1841 to July 1, 1845, when he was graduated and promoted in the army to brevet second lieutenant of topographical engineers. He served as assistant topographical engineer on the survey of the Northern lakes, 1845-46; at the military academy as assistant professor of mathematics, Nov. 6, 1846, to Aug. 21, 1848; as assistant topographical engineer on explorations in the Department of Texas, 1848-50, being commissioned second lieutenant of topographical engineers on July 14, 1849. He was on the survey of the boundary between the United States and Mexico 1850-52, on the survey of the canal route across Florida in 1853, and was commissioned first lieutenant of topographical engineers on March 3, 1853. He was on explorations in Texas, 1853-55; at the military academy as principal assistant professor of mathematics, Sept. 4, 1855, to Sept. 8, 1856; as engineer of the 11th light-house district, Dec. 11, 1856, to Nov. 3, 1859, and he was commissioned captain of topographical engineers on July 1, 1859, for fourteen years, continuous service. He then served as engineer secretary of the light-house board from Nov. 3, 1859, to April 15, 1861. He served during the Civil War, first on mustering duty at New York City, April 15 to May 31, 1861, on the staff of Maj.-Gen. Butler at Fort Monroe, Va., June 1 to July 20, and was commissioned colonel of the 3d Vt. infantry on July 16, 1861. He was on the staff of Brig-Gen. McDowell, July 20 to Aug. 13; served in the Manassas campaign and was engaged in the battle of Bull Run, in the defenses of Washington, D. C., July 27, 1861 to March 10, 1862, and he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers on Aug. 13, 1861. He served in the Virginia Peninsular campaign, in command of a division of the Army of the Potomac, being engaged in the siege of Yorktown including the skirmish of Lee's mill, the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, White Oak swamp, Savage Station, Glendale and Malvern hill. On June 28, 1862, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, U. S. A., for gallant and
meritorious services in the battle of White Oak swamp, and in the Maryland campaign he was in command of a division of the Army of the Potomac, being engaged in the battles of South mountain and Antietam, and on the march to Falmouth. On Sept. 17, 1862, he was brevetted colonel, U. S. A., for gallant and  meritorious services in the battle of Antietam; participated in the Rappahannock campaign, in command of the 6th corps Nov. 14, 1861 to Feb. 4, 1863, and of the 9th corps from Feb. 4 to March 17, being engaged in the battle of Fredericksburg. He was commissioned major of the corps of engineers on March 3, 1863, and was in command of a division in the Department of the Susquehanna, being engaged in the pursuit of the Confederate army retreating from Gettysburg, and was then in the Department of West Virginia from Aug. 3 to Sept. 5. He served as chief engineer of the Department of the Cumberland, Oct. 10 to November, and of the Military Division of the Mississippi from Nov., 1863 to March 31, 1864, in operations about Chattanooga, being engaged in surprising a passage and throwing a pontoon bridge across the Tennessee river at Brown's ferry, and he was also engaged in the battle of Missionary Ridge. On March 9, 1864, he was commissioned major-general of volunteers, and was in command of the 18th corps of the Army of the Potomac from May 2 to July 19, being engaged in the operations before Richmond and in the battle of Cold Harbor and siege of Petersburg. He was on special duty, under the orders of the secretary of war, from Nov. 22, 1864 to Dec. 15, 1865, and was then on leave of absence until March 7, 1867, when he resigned from the regular army, having resigned his volunteer commission on Nov. 4, 1865. He was brevetted brigadier-general, U. S. A., on March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Chattanooga, and on the same date was given the brevet title of major-general U. S. A., for gallant and meritorious services in the field during the Rebellion. He served as president of the International Telegraph company, 1864-73, and became Commissioner of Police of New York City on May 1, 1875, and then served as president of the Board of Police Commissioners from Dec. 31, 1875, to March 11, 1881. After this date he followed civil engineering in the service of the United States. He was reappointed as major, U. S. A., on March 1, 1889, and placed upon the retired list. Gen. Smith died on Feb. 28, 1903. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV423. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Brigadier-General Louis (Ludwig) Blenker (1812-1863) was born in Worms Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, July 31, 1812. While in the service of the Bavarian legion, which accompanied King Otto to Greece,
he attained the rank of lieutenant, in 1837. He was a leading member of the revolutionary government at Worms, in 1849, and upon the overthrow of the revolutionist cause, was forced to retire to Switzerland. Being ordered to leave that country also, he emigrated in Sept., 1849, to the United States, where he at first undertook to cultivate a farm in Rockland county, N. Y., and later engaged in business in New York City. Being commissioned on May 31, 1861, colonel of the 8th N. Y. Volunteers, which he had organized, he first distinguished himself at the battle of Bull Run, where his regiment, which acted as a reserve, covered the retreat with great steadiness and recovered two Union colors which the retreating soldiers had left on the field. For gallantry at this time he was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, and, in the early part of the Peninsular campaign, was ordered to West Virginia, where he took an active part in the battle of Cross Keys, June 8, 1862, until, on the arrival of Gen. Fremont, he was superseded by Gen. Sigel. He was then ordered to Washington, mustered out of the service in March, 1863, and on Oct. 31, died on his farm in Rockland county, N. Y., as the result of internal injuries, received from a fall of his horse during the Virginia campaign. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV424. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick (1836-1881). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

CWCDV425. J. Gurney & Son, NY. General Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881). VG. $125

CWCDV426. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Horatio Gouverneur Wright (1820-1899). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $75

CWCDV427. E. Anthony, NY. General George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885). VG. $125

CWCDV428. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General John Adams Dix (1798-1879). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV429. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Rear Admiral Stephen C. Rowan (1808-1890). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV430. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Admiral John Rogers (1812-1882). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV431. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Commander David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $175

CWCDV432. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Rear Admiral Foote (1806-1863). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV433. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Charles Tillinghast James (1805-1862). Major-general RI Militia; US Senator 1851-'57; mortally wounded Sag Harbor, Oct. '62, during shell demonstration. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV434.  Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Benjamin Franklin Kelley (1807-1891). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $300

CWCDV435. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Capt. John Faunce, US Revenue Cutter Service. Commanding officer steam cutter "Harriet Lane;" fired first naval shot of the Civil War outside Charleston Harbor. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $275

CWCDV436. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Confederate General Gustavus Woodson Smith (1821-1896). Jewish Secretary of War for the Confederacy. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $300

CWCDV437. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Sedgwick. He is wearing a bandage  on his hand from the wound he received in Fredericksburg. VG. $450

CWCDV438. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Lieut. Russell. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $175

CWCDV440. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Commander Samuel Livingston Breese (1794-1870). Commander of the Brooklyn Navy Yard 1859-'61. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV441. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Henry Goddard Thomas (1837-1897). Recruited and organized Negro troops. Col. 79 US Colored Infantry, 19th Colored Infantry. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $325

CWCDV442. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Col. Daniel Fletcher Webster (1818-1862). Commander 12th Mass ("The Webster Regiment"); son of Daniel Webster; killed at 2nd Manassas; memorial at Gettysburg. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $400

CWCDV443.  Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Joseph Dana Webster (1811-1876); military confidante of Grant and Sherman. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $325

CWCDV444. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Capt. Thaddeus P. Mott, 3rd NY Artillery. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

CWCDV445. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General William Woods Averell (1832-1900). Severely wounded during the Indian Wars. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

CWCDV447. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Robert Anderson (1805-1871). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV448.  Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. John Henry Martindale (1815-1881). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV450. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Commander Montgomery. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV451.  Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. General Egbert Ludovicus Viele (1825-1902). Served at chief engineer of Prospect Park in Bklyn and as NYC Parks Commissioner. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

CWCDV452. E. Anthony, NY. Col. Edward D. Baker (1811-1861) of the 1st California Regiment was a confidante of Lincoln's, introduced him at his first inaugural; served as a Senator from Oregon; and was killed in action at Ball's Bluff. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $350

CWCDV453. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Dupont (1803-1865). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV454. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Randolph Barnes Marcy (1812-1887). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV455.  Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Brigadier-general Charles Pomeroy Stone (1824-1887), was born in Greenfield, Franklin county, Mass. He entered the United States military academy in 1841 and graduated in 1845, when he was appointed a brevet second lieutenant of ordnance. A month later he was appointed acting assistant professor of ethics in the military academy, an office he held till Jan., 1846, when he was ordered to duty in Mexico.  He distinguished himself in several battles under Gen. Scott, was brevetted first lieutenant Sept. 8, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey, captain five days later for similar conduct at Chapultepec, and commissioned first lieutenant in the regular army in Feb., 1853.  In 1851 he was sent to California where he constructed the Benicia arsenal and acted as chief of ordnance for the Pacific coast. He resigned from the army in 1856, was engaged in the banking business in San Francisco for a year and then undertook a survey of Sonora and Lower California under a commission from the Mexican president. Just before the inauguration of President Lincoln, Mr. Holt, the secretary of war, called Lieut. Stone to Washington, appointed him a captain in the army and assigned him to the duty of inspector-general of all the militia in the District of Columbia then organizing for the protection of the national capital. On May 14, 1861, he was appointed colonel of the 14th U. S. infantry and three days later was made brigadier-general of volunteers.  He served in the Shenandoah valley under Gen. Patterson during July, and when Gen. McClellan assumed command of the Army of the Potomac, after the battle of Bull Run, Gen. Stone was selected to command a division and directed to occupy the valley of the Potomac above Washington as a corps of observation. On Jan. 5, 1862, he appeared before the Congressional committee on the conduct of the war and was rigidly examined as to every detail of the battle of Ball's Bluff, which he had been accused of bringing on without due preparation. His responses were given frankly and seemed to satisfy the committee, but in February he was arrested and imprisoned in Fort Lafayette, N. Y. harbor, where he was kept in confinement for seven months without any charges having been preferred against him, despite his appeals to Sec. Stanton and President Lincoln for such a hearing as the military code provided for every accused officer. After his release he served in the siege of Port Hudson, was one of the commissioners to receive its surrender, and as chief of staff of Gen. Banks was engaged in the skirmish of Bayou Teche and the battles of Sabine crossroads and Pleasant Hill in April, 1864. He was mustered out of the volunteer service the same month and remained unemployed till August, when he was assigned to the command of a brigade in the Army of the Potomac, retaining it till after the surrender of Petersburg and then resigning from the army.  He was engineer and superintendent of the Dover mining company of Virginia from 1865 to 1869, and in 1870 entered the service of the Khedive of Egypt, becoming chief of the general staff or practically commander-in-chief of the entire army. For his valuable services in command, organization and administration he was decorated commander of the Order of Osmanieh Oct. 10, 1870, grand officer of the Order of Medjii Jan. 24, 1875, and raised to the dignity of a pasha in 1878. Early in 1883 Gen. Stone resigned his commission in the Egyptian service, returned to the United States and was appointed engineer-in-chief of the construction of the pedestal for Bartholdi's statue of Liberty in the harbor of New York, which proved his last work. Gen. Stone died in New York City, Jan. 24, 1887. Trimmed at bottom. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

CWCDV456. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General David Bell Birney (1825-1864). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $325

CWCDV459. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Quincy Adams Gillmore (1825-1888). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV461. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General George Archibald McCall (1802-1868). Taken prisoner at Glendale. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $225

CWCDV462. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General John Gray Foster (1823-1874). Severely WIA Molino del Rey, Mexican War; chief engineer Charleston Harbor. Trimmed at bottom. G. $225

CWCDV463. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Quincy Adams Gillmore (1825-1888). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV464. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Julius Stahel (1825-1912); Hungarian who recruited the 8th NY (1st German Rifles). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $375

CWCDV466. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General John Gross Barnard (1815-1882). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

CWCDV467. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. General David Hunter (1802-1886). Repudiated by Lincoln for his order to abolish slavery in the Dept. of the South in 1862; WIA 1st Manassas; burned the Virginia Military Institute; presided over court martial of Fitz John Porter; presided over the trail of the Lincoln conspirators. VG. $300

CWCDV468. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. John Cochran (1813-1898). Grandson of Surgeon General John Cochran of the Revolutionary Army; recruited 65th NY Infantry; attorney general of NY. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $300

CWCDV469. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General George Webb Morell (1815-1883). NY Militia Quartermaster; Porter's court martial destroyed Morell's career. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

CWCDV471. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. General Irvin McDowell (1818-1885). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV472. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914); WIA Gettysburg, lost his right leg. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $350

CWCDV473. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General McClellan & Lady. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

CWCDV474. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Capt. Hudson. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $100

CWCDV475. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. General Daniel Butterfield (1831-1901); WIA Gaines Mills; severely WIA Gettysburg; composer of "Taps." Trimmed at bottom. VG. $450

CWCDV476. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Admiral Hiram Paulding (1797-1878). In charge of effort to destroy Norfolk Navy Yard, April '61. Oct. '61, commander of NY Navy Yard. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV478. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Assistant Surgeon John Campbell, holding M1840 Medical Staff sword w/sword knot/portapee. Dress chapeau on chair. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $300

CWCDV479. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General David McMortrie Gregg (1833-1916). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $350

CWCDV481. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Col. James A. Mulligan. Recruited 23 IL Vol. Infantry ("Irish Brigade"); WIA several times, finally at Kernstown, died 2 days later as prisoner. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $475

CWCDV482. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Col. Lyman H. Mix of the 3rd NY Cavalry ("Van Allen Cavalry"). Van Allen resigned April '62, Mix took over; KIA Petersburgh June '64. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $400

CWCDV484. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864) was an American lawyer, Congregational minister, abolitionist, and Republican congressman. He was also a "conductor" on the underground railroad. His brother, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, an anti-slavery Presbyterian minister, was murdered on the night of Nov. 7, 1837 while trying to defend the printing press of an Illinois Anti-Slavery Society from an angry mob. Owen Lovejoy is reported to have sworn on his brother's grave to "never forsake the cause that had been sprinkled with my brother's blood." He was also the cousin of Maine Senator Nathan A. Farwell. Lovejoy was a platform speaker in support of Abraham Lincoln in the famous debates with Stephen Douglas. Lovejoy was elected from Illinois as a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress and succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1857 until his death. He was a trusted confidante of Abraham Lincoln for decades and one of the few steadfast congressional supporters of Lincoln during the Civil War. Lincoln wrote "To the day of his death, it would scarcely wrong any other to say, he was my most generous friend." He was born in Albion, Maine, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1832. He served as pastor of the Congregational Church in Princeton, Illinois from 1839–1856. He died in Brooklyn, New York, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, in Princeton. The city of Princeton maintains and preserves his home, the Owen Lovejoy House and it is open to the public. His home was part of the Underground Railroad and has a secret compartment for hiding slaves. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997. A monument, the Lovejoy State Memorial, also exists. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $400

CWCDV485. E&HT Anthony, NY. Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith (1824-1893); WIA First Manassas. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $300

CWCDV487. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General George Henry Thomas (1816-1870), the "Rock of Chickamauga." Trimmed at bottom. VG. $300

CWCDV488. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Col. Vosburgh, 71 NYS Militia. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $350

CWCDV489. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. General Joseph King Fenno Mansfield (1803-1863), killed at Sharpsburg. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $400

CWCDV490. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Chaplain S.H. Weston of the 7th NY Militia. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV491. J. Gurney & Son, NY. General Philip Kearney (1815-1862). Kearny's left arm was lost in the Mexican War. At Chantilly (Ox Hill), he inadvertently rode into Confederate lines and was killed. VG. $350

CWCDV494. J. Gurney & Son, NY. General Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-1893). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $75

CWCDV495. E&HT Anthony, NY. Confederate General Benjamin Franklin Cheatham (1820-1886). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV498. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Col. Prince Felix Salm Salm, 68th Regiment NYS Volunteer Infantry. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $275

CWCDV499. E&HT Anthony, NY. Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823-1914). He yielded to Grant's demand for 'unconditional surrender' at Fort Donelson in 1862. Governor of Kentucky 1887-'91; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President on the National Democratic Party ticket, 1896. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $275

CWCDV501. E&HT Anthony, NY. Confederate General Ambrose Powell Hill (1825-1865). Commander of "Hill's Light Division" under Stonewall Jackson; WIA Chancellorsville; fought at Antietam, Gettysburg; killed at Petersburgh one week before the end of the war. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV502. No backmark. Confederate Captain George Nichols Hollins (1799-1878) of the Confederate States Navy. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $100

CWCDV503. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $75

CWCDV504. E. Anthony, NY. Col. Bendix, 7th NY, the "Steuben Guard." Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

CWCDV505. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Lorenzo Thomas (1804-1875). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV506. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. General Winfield Scott (1786-1866). Classic image of Scott sitting outdoors at West Point. VG. $275

CWCDV507. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General David Allen Russell (1820-1864). As Col. in command of the 7th Massachusetts Vol. Infantry, he served in the Peninsula Campaign, the Seven Days Battles, and at Antietam. Later promoted to brigadier general of volunteers he participated in the Rappahannock campaign and the battle of Fredericksburg. In 1864 he was killed during the Battle of Opequon (Third Battle of Winchester) when he was struck by a shell fragment. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $400

CWCDV508. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Joseph Gilbert Totten (1788-1864). Totten was the 10th graduate of West Point and served as the Chief Engineer of the Army. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV509. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. General Carl Shurz (1829-1906). First German-born American elected to US Senate; abolitionist, orator, editor; Secretary of the Interior 1877-'81 under Hayes. VG. $350

CWCDV510. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. General Samuel Peter Heintzelman (1805-1880). WIA Bull Run. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $225

CWCDV511. J.E. McClees, Philadelphia. General Don Carlos Buell (1818-1898). G. $150

CWCDV512. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Edwin Vose Sumner (1797-1863). Sumner was he oldest field commander of any Army Corps on either side during the Civil War. His nicknames "Bull" or "Bull Head" came both from his great booming voice and a legend that a musket ball once bounced off his head. He led the II Corps of the Army of the Potomac through the Peninsula Campaign during which he was twice wounded, the Seven Days Battles, the Maryland Campaign and the Battle of Fredericksburg. VG. $300

CWCDV513. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Erasmus Darwin Keyes (1810-1895). VG. $250

CWCDV514. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. General George Stoneman (1822-1894). California Governor '83-'87. VG. $300

CWCDV515. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Daniel Butterfield (1831-1901). WIA Gaines Mill, Gettysburg. Composer of "Taps." Trimmed at bottom. VG. $400

CWCDV516. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886). Particularly noted for his leadership at Gettysburg where he was WIA. Ran against Garfield for President in 1880. VG. $475

CWCDV517. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General John Alexander McClernand (1812-1890). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

CWCDV518. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Alfred Pleasonton (1824-1897). G. $250

CWCDV519. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. General Frederick West Lander (1821-1862). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV520. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. General William Starke Rosecrans (1819-1898) was an inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and US Army officer. He was the victor at prominent battles such as Second Corinth, Stones River, and the Tullahoma Campaign, but his military career was effectively ended following his disastrous defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. VG. $225

CWCDV521. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Robert Huston Milroy (1816-1890). Most noted for his defeat at the Second Battle of Winchester. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $225

CWCDV522. No backmark. General Franz Sigel (1824-1902). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $125

CWCDV523. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General William Starke Rosecrans (1819-1898) was an inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and US Army officer. He was the victor at prominent battles such as Second Corinth, Stones River, and the Tullahoma Campaign, but his military career was effectively ended following his disastrous defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863.  Trimmed at bottom. G. $125

CWCDV524. J. Gurney & Son, NY. General John Wolcott Phelps (1813-1885). Ardent abolitionist, presidential candidate. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $125

CWCDV525. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. General Samuel Davis Sturgis (1822-1889). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $125

CWCDV526. E&HT Anthony, NY. Confederate General Samuel Cooper (1798-1876). Cooper was the highest ranking Confederate General. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $175

CWCDV527. E. Anthony. NY. General Simmons? I think he's a confederate SC militia general but not sure. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $100

CWCDV528. E&HT Anthony, NY. Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807-1891). WIA Seven Pines. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $175

CWCDV529. E&HT Anthony, NY. General Thomas Leonides Crittendon (1819-1893). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $100

CWCDV530. E&HT Anthony, NY. General Jesse Lee Reno (1823-1862). KIA South Mountain. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV531. E&HT Anthony, NY. General James Birdseye McPherson (1828-1864). KIA Battle of Atlanta. He was the highest ranking Union officer killed during the war. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $175

CWCDV533. E&HT Anthony, NY. General Lovell Harrison Rousseau (1818-1869). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $100

CWCDV534. E&HT Anthony, NY. General Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862). Severely WIA during the Mexican War; KIA Battle of Chantilly. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV535. No backmark. General Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $75

CWCDV536. E&HT Anthony, NY. General Samuel Ryan Curtis (1805-1866). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $125

CWCDV538. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General Hiram Gregory Berry (1824-1863). KIA Chancellorville. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

CWCDV539. E&HT Anthony, NY. Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862). Secretary of War, Republic of Texas 1838-'40; Utah expedition against the Mormons, 1857; KIA Shiloh. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV543. E&HT Anthony, NY. Confederate General Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-1878). Primarily remembered for his poor performance at the Battle of Fort Donelson. VG. $200

CWCDV545. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes (1798-1877). He led the important US Exploring Expedition in 1838-1842 and was the central figure in the Trent Affair. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV546. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Confederate General William Joseph Hardee (1815-1873). Author of "Hardee's Tactics," the best known Civil War drill manual. WIA Shiloh. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $200

CWCDV547. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Commodore Silas Horton Stringham (1798-1876). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $100

CWCDV549. E&HT Anthony, NY. Confederate General Humphrey Marshall (1812-1872). Served as both a US Congressman and a Confederate Congressman. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $125

CWCDV550. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Capt., later Rear Admiral John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (1809-1870). He headed the Navy Ordnance Department during the Civil War. "The Dahlgren Gun," etc. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV551. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Rear Admiral William Bradford Shubrick (1790-1874). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $100

CWCDV552. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Confederate General Mansfield Lovell (1822-1884). He evacuated New Orleans allowing Farragut to capture to city. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $65

CWCDV553. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Admiral James Hooker Strong (1814-1882). Commander of the Monongahela in the Battle of Mobile Bay. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

CWCDV554. E. Anthony, NY. William "Extra Billy" Smith (1797-1887), Confederate general; WIA Antietam; failed role at Gettysburg; Representative from Virginia, '41-'43; '53-'61; Governor of Virginia '46-'49; '64'-65. Rough top edge of card. G. $100

CWCDV555. E&HT Anthony, NY. General Alexander McDougall McCook (1831-1903). Led 1st OH Regiment at Bull Run. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $100

CWCDV557. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. Abram Duryée (April 29, 1815 – September 27, 1890), Union Army general, the commander of one of the most famous Zouave regiments, the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry. After the war he was NYC Police Commissioner. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $350

CWCDV559. Alexander Gardner, Washington, DC. Surgeon William James Sloan, Major. Enlisted 12/20/55 as a Surgeon, commissioned into US Army Medical Staff. Promotions: Lt. Col. 3.13.65 by Brevet; Col. 3.13.65 by Brevet; Brig-Gen. 9/28/66 by Brevet. Born in Pennsylvania, died 3/17/1880. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). 2-cent cancelled tax stamp on verso. Top corners clipped. G. $200

CWCDV560. Marshall, Boston. Private Charles Duncan Lamb; enlisted 9/15/62; mustered into "Landis'" Co. PA Independent Light Artillery; mustered out 9/26/62; 12/11/63 commissioned into "I" Co. MA 2nd Heavy Artillery; discharged for promotion 7/6/64; 7/2/64 commissioned into "I" Co. MA 56th Infantry; discharged for wounds 12/28/64. WIA 7/30/64, Petersburg, Va.; 8/19/64, Weldon Railroad, Va. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). 3-cent cancelled tax stamp on verso. Lower left corner chipped. G. $200

CWCAB5. Matthew Brady. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 423. Professor Lowe inflating Balloon Intrepid to Reconnoiter Battle of Fair Oaks. Album card image measures 3 3/8" x 4 3/4" on 4 1/2" x 6" card. VG. $1250

CWCAB6. Barnard & Gibson copyright, 1862. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 488. The Iron-Clad Gunboat Galena, showing the effects of the fire from Fort Darling. USS Galena , a 950-ton ironclad gunboat, was built at Mystic, Connecticut. Commissioned in April 1862 as the second of the U.S. Navy's first three armored warships, she was immediately sent to Hampton Roads, Virginia, to join the Navy's pioneer ironclad Monitor in containing CSS Virginia . On 8 May, Galena attacked enemy shore batteries on the James River, part of an intended drive up the river to take Richmond, the Confederate capital city.

After the Virginia was destroyed, Galena and other Union warships steamed up the James on 15 May to bombard Fort Darling, located at Drewry's Bluff about eight miles below Richmond. In a sharp action, Confederate gunners badly damaged Galena , killing twelve of her crew and demonstrating the inadequacy of her relatively thin iron armor. Despite her injuries, the ship remained in the James River area through the next four months, shelling enemy shore positions on several occasions in support of General McClellan's army during the flow and ebb of its campaign on the Virginia Peninsula. After Galena left the James in September 1862, she was stationed in Hampton Roads until May 1863, when she went to Philadelphia for repairs and alterations.

Recommissioned in February 1864, Galena had been stripped of her iron plating, given a heavier gun battery and enlarged sail rig. Now a conventional unarmored steam warship, in May she joined the West Gulf Blockading Squadron's pending assault on Mobile Bay, Alabama. She was one of the ships that ran past the Bay's defending Fort Morgan on the morning of 5 August 1864. During that action, she assisted USS Oneida to safety after that ship was disabled by Confederate gunfire. Later in the month, Galena took part in the siege that led to Fort Morgan's surrender.

Galena served in the East Gulf Blockading Squadron in September-November 1864. After four months of shipyard repairs, she served on Virginia's James and Nansemond Rivers through the end of the Civil War. She decommissioned in June 1865 and was thereafter inactive except for a brief time in the spring of 1869. USS Galena was broken up in 1872 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, where a new and somewhat larger Galena was built under the administrative fiction of repairing the original. G. $295

CWCDV562. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 381. Group. Generals Franklin, Slocum, Barry, Newton, and Friends--14th May, 1862. All identified on verso in ink. G. $350

CWCDV563. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 398. Largest Confederate Gun (64 pound), Burst in efforts to reach Battery No. 1 of Gen. McClellan's works. G. $250

CWCDV564. M.B. Brady 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Fort Pulaski with a Gun dismounted. G. $250

CWCDV565. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 288. Georgetown Aqueduct. VG. $275

CWCDV566. Rockwood & Co., NY. Unidentified CDV of soldiers with flag in front of tent. 2-cent cancelled revenue stamp on verso. G. $150

CWCDV567. M.B. Brady 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Fort Pulaski. G. $125

CWCDV568. Barnard & Gibson's 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 384. White House, Formerly residence of Mrs. Custis Washington, now the residence of Col. Lee. 17th May, 1862. Written in manuscript "burned down June 1862." VG. $275

CWCDV570. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 407. St. Peter's Church near White House--Built 1717. Where George Washington was married. G. $250

CWCDV571. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 299. Fairfax Court House. G. $250

CWCAB7. M.B. Brady 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 412. Front Line of Confederate Works, Showing General McClellan's Battery No. 1. Album Card. VG. $250

CWCAB8. M.B. Brady 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 489. Military Bridges Across the Chickahominy, Built by the 15th N.Y.V. Engineers, Col. Murphy. Album Card. VG. $300

CWCAB9. M.B. Brady 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 391. Street in Yorktown, Gateway in Distance. VG. $325

CWCAB10. Brady's Incidents of the War. View near the Potomac where one of the greatest Battles has been fought called the Wilderness, in pencil on verso. Album Card. VG. $150

CWCAB11. Brady's Incidents of the War. The outerwall of Fort Sumpter with signal lookout, near Charleston. Album Card. VG. $150

CWCAB12. Brady's Incidents of the War. Fort Segwick, or Fort Damnation. Album Card. VG. $175

CWCDV572. Manchester Bros., Providence, R.I. 2nd Lieut. Henry L. Starkweather, RI 4th Infantry. Residence, Glocester, RI; enlisted 9/30/61 as a Private; mustered into "D" Co. RI 4th Infantry on 10/30/61; resigned 8/10/62. Promotions: Sergt. 10/14/61; 2nd Lieut. 11/20/61 (Co. K); Intra Regimental Company Transfer from Company D to Company K 11/20/61. VG. $225

CWCDV573. Manchester Bros., Providence, R.I. Lieut. Colonel Job Arnold. Residence, Providence, R.I.; enlisted 3/2/63 as a Lieut. Colonel; 3/3/63 commissioned into Field & Staff RI 7th Infantry; discharged 5/28/64. G. $175

CWCDV575. O.H. Willard, Philadelphia. Assistant Surgeon John Sweeney, NY 173rd Infantry. Sweeney is wearing a 9-button frock coat and has a surgeon's sword with waist belt and sash. His kepi has "US" on front. Trousers have a light stripe. His left arm has a black band of mourning around it. Remnants of 3-cent tax stamp on verso. VG. $200

CWCDV576. Filley & Gilbert, New Haven, Conn. Captain Francis R. Leeds, CT 28th Infantry. Leeds' residence was Stamford, CT; he enlisted on 8/12/62 as a Captain; commissioned into "A" Co, CT 28th Infantry on 11/15/62 and died at Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 17th, 1863 of dysentery. G. $200

CWCDV577. No ID. Late E. P. Colby, Free Citizen. VG. $150

CWCDV578. Johnson's Union Photograph Gallery, Washington, DC. "Very Truly Yours, J.M. Waltins? Chap. 38 Reg. Wis." Very hard for me to figure out what this guy's last name is. But it's signed by him. G. $185

CWCDV579. Moulthrop & Williams, New Haven, Ct. & J.K. Bundy, New Haven, Conn. Captain Ruell P. Cowles, CT 27th Infantry. Residence, New Haven, CT; enlisted 9/2/62 as a Captain; commissioned into "H" Co. CT 27th Infantry on 10/22/62; mustered out on 7/27/63; promoted to Quartermaster 5/13/63. With CDV of Annie Cowles, his wife. CDVs are housed in an album page with names beneath. G. $200

CWCDV580. Vannerson & Jones, Richmond, Va. Robert E. Lee, with Lee's signed inscription on verso: "For Miss Lucy Blaine RE Lee." The 2-cent cancelled tax stamp has Vannerson & Jones dated cancellation "V&J June 26 1865." G. $3750

CWCDV581. Barnard & Gibson's 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 353. Group. General Van Vliet and Friends, Camp Winfield Scott, near Yorktown. G. $295

CWCDV582. No ID. Unidentified soldier with pistol in his belt posed before scenic backdrop. Back of card is blank. G. $150

CWCDV583. Alexander Gardner, Washington, DC. President Abraham Lincoln taken August 9, 1863. This appears to be O-72c in Ostendorf's listing. G. $975

CWCDV585. C.D. Fredricks & Co., NY. Major-general Don Carlos Buell (1818-1898). Born near Marietta, Ohio March 23, 1818.  He was graduated at West Point in 1841, and assigned to the 3rd infantry, being raised to 1st lieutenant June 18, 1846. He served in the war with Mexico, being brevetted captain for gallant action at Monterey, and major after Contreras and Churubusco, having received a severe wound in the latter engagement and was then, from 1848 to 1861, on duty as assistant adjutant-general at Washington and at various department headquarters. He received a staff appointment as lieutenant-colonel, May 11, 1861, was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers on May 17, being employed at first in organizing the troops at Washington, and in Aug. 1861, was given command of a division of the Army of the Potomac. In Nov., 1861, he superseded Gen. W. T. Sherman as commander of the Department of the Cumberland, which was reorganized as the Department of the Ohio, and the campaign in Kentucky was opened on Dec. 17, 1861, when an attack was begun upon his pickets at Rowlett station, near Munfordville. Gen. Buell occupied Bowling Green, Feb. 14, 1862, took possession with a small force of Gallatin, Tenn., on the 23rd, and entered Nashville two days later. On March 21, 1862, he was made major-general of volunteers, his department becoming a part of the Department of the Mississippi under Gen. Halleck, and on the 6th of April following, his opportune arrival at Shiloh saved Gen. Grant from disastrous defeat. On June 12, 1862, he took command of the Department of the Ohio, and, upon the advance of Bragg into Kentucky he was forced to evacuate Central Tennessee, and make a rapid retreat to Louisville, in order to save that city, and Cincinnati, which also was threatened by the Confederates.  He arrived at Louisville at midnight, Sept. 24, amid great excitement, as the inhabitants had feared that Bragg would get there first. Buell was ordered to give over his command to Thomas, Sept. 30, but was reinstated the next day and began a pursuit of the Confederates. After a week's chase, Bragg halted to give battle at Perryville, and there the two armies fought an indecisive battle which lasted from early in the afternoon of Oct. 8, until dark, with great loss on both sides. On the next day Bragg retired to Harrodsburg, and thence slowly to Cumberland gap. Buell's management of this command has been pronounced masterful by military authorities, but he was censured by the war department for not pursuing the Confederates swiftly enough to bring them into action again, and on Oct. 24, 1862, was ordered to turn over his command to Gen. Rosecrans. A military committee made a report which was never published. Gen. Buell was mustered out of the volunteer service, May 23, 1864, and resigned his commission in the regular army June 1, 1864. After the war he became extensively engaged in the iron business in Muhlenburg county, Ky., and in 1885 was appointed by President Cleveland pension agent in Kentucky. He died near Rockport, Ky., Nov. 19, 1898. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). VG. $150

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