Civil War
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Stereos,
Tintypes,
Daguerreotypes,
Ambrotypes, and
Large Albumen Images.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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. I've been told this is ["Gallop's Island, Boston 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

CWCDV290. A. Whissemore, Mansfield, Ohio. A pair of Civil War
buddies visiting the photographer's studio. Bottom corners clipped. VG. $250

CWCDV292. J.A. Scholten, St. Louis, Mo. Unidentified soldier. VG.
$95

CWCDV297. E. Decker, Cleveland, Ohio. Unidentified soldier in
Napoleonic pose. Bottom corners clipped. G. $85

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
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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

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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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



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



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



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



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



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


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


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




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


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

CWCDV586.
M.B. Brady, Washington DC. This image
was taken in April 1862 at Beaufort, SC by Timothy O'Sullivan. This image is
illustrated pn page 419 of The Image of War: 1861-1865, Volume I: Shadows of
the The Storm by The National Historical Society, William C. Davis, editor &
Bell I. Wiley, Senior Consulting Editor. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc.,
1981. The caption beneath the image reads: One of the war's finest young
photographers was Timothy O'Sullivan, among the first northern cameramen to
return to South Carolina with the invading Federals. At Beaufort, in April 1862,
he recorded an outstanding series of images, and this one probably includes
himself, seated second from the right, at his "mess." The officers and men
seated around the table are being served by three black men. Corners are
clipped. VG. $650


CWCDV587. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 369. Headquarters of Gen'l Lafayette
Before the Battle of Yorktown. Image shows a group of blacks and several
soldiers. VG. $300


CWCDV588. Brady's National Portrait
Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony. Profile view of Robert E. Lee. VG. $450


CWCDV589. John P. Soule, Boston.
Battlefield flags of the 19th Massachusetts Volunteers. VG. $750


CWCDV590. G.J. Wood, Syracuse, NY. Lieut. Green Smith, Co. A, NY 14th Heavy
Artillery. VG. $85


CWCDV592. No ID. On back is written "Col.
Moss 1st Ga. Cav. U.S.V." I was unable to find info on this soldier. 3-cent
cancelled tax stamp on verso. Fair. $75


CWCDV594. J. Gurney & Son, NY.
Meade, George G. major-general, was born at Cadiz, Spain, during the consulship
of his father at that port, in 1815. At
an early age he was sent to the boys' school in Washington, D.C., at that time
kept by Salmon P. Chase, afterward chief-justice of the United States supreme
court. Subsequently he attended the military academy near Philadelphia, and in
1831, entered the academy at West Point, whence he graduated in 1835, as brevet
second lieutenant of the 3d artillery. The same year he was made second
lieutenant, and served in Florida in the Seminole war. The state of his health
induced him to resign his commission in 1836, and he became a civil engineer,
but, in 1842, he again entered the army, as second lieutenant in the corps of
topographical engineers, and in that capacity served in the Mexican war. During
this campaign he was attached to the staff of Gen. Taylor, and afterward to that
of Gen. Scott distinguishing himself at Palo Alto and Monterey, and receiving,
as an acknowledgment of his gallantry, a brevet of first lieutenant, dated Sept
23, 1846, and also upon his return to Philadelphia, a splendid sword from his
townsmen. During the interim between the Mexican war and the Civil war, having
been promoted to a full first lieutenancy in Aug., 1851, and to a captaincy of
engineers in May, 1855, he was engaged in the particular duties of his
department, more especially in the survey of the northern lakes; but upon the
call of the government for men in 1861, he was ordered to report at Washington,
and upon the organization of the Pennsylvania reserve corps, was made a
brigadier-general of volunteers and assigned the command of the 2nd brigade, his
commission dating Aug. 31, 1861. During the Seven Days' battles Gen. Meade was
severely wounded, but soon recovered and, in Sept., 1862, took command of a
division in Reynolds' 1st army corps, which he conducted with great skill and
bravery during the Maryland campaign. At Antietam, when Gen. Hooker was wounded,
Gen. Meade was placed in command of the corps and fought bravely the remainder
of the day, receiving a slight wound and having two horses killed under him. He
received the appointment of major-general of volunteers on Nov. 29, and took
part in the battle of Fredericksburg, displaying courage and coolness during the
engagement. In June, 1863, when Lee was advancing up the Shenandoah valley to
invade Maryland and Pennsylvania, Gen. Meade was suddenly and unexpectedly
called to succeed Gen. Hooker in the command of the Army of the Potomac, and he
displayed masterly ability throughout the three days' battle of Gettysburg.
Following this engagement, about July 18, he moved his army across the Potomac
into Virginia, where he had several skirmishes with the enemy in October and
November, and he was in command of the Army of the Potomac during the operations
against Richmond in 1864. On June 18, 1862, Gen. Meade was promoted to the rank
of major of engineers in the regular army, and on July 3, 1863, was advanced by
the several grades of lieutenant-colonel and colonel to the
brigadier-generalship in the regular army. During the session of 1863-64 he
received the thanks of Congress, and was on Feb. 1, 1865, promoted a
major-general in the regular army, his commission dating from Aug. 18, 1864. In
the reconstruction of the military divisions
after the war, Gen. Meade was given the command of the division of the Atlantic,
with headquarters at Philadelphia, where he resided in the house presented to
his wife by his fellow-citizens, in grateful recognition of his eminent
services. He died at this residence in Philadelphia, Nov. 6, 1872. (From
Historical Data
System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com).
Trimmed at corners. VG. $85


CWCDV597. Morse's Gallery of the
Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn. Philip H. Sheridan, major-general, was born at Albany,
N. Y., March 6, 1831, but while he was yet in his infancy his
parents removed to Somerset, Ohio, and some of his earlier
biographers have made the error of naming the latter as the
place of his birth. His father was a contractor for the
building of roads, and was away from home a great deal, so
that Sheridan was reared by his mother and at the village
school learned the rudimentary English branches. The ambition
to be a soldier had already evinced itself, but as soon as he
could do so he entered a country store at a salary of $24 per
year; thence he went to another store, where his pay was $60
per annum, and finally secured a situation where he earned
$120 for twelve months' labor as book-keeper and general
manager. It is said that up to the time he was sixteen years
old he had never been ten miles away from Somerset after his
parents located there. At this period he applied to the
member of Congress from his district for an appointment as
cadet at the United States military academy. The answer was
the enclosure of his warrant as such cadet, and the direction
that he report at the academy on June 1, 1848. Passing the
preliminary examinations without trouble, he was aided by
Cadet H. W. Slocum of New York, who was his roommate, in
studies of which he knew nothing upon his entry into the
institution. In 1852, his graduating year, Sheridan was
suspended from the academy for his action in some trouble with
another cadet, but he afterward joined the class of 1853 and
was graduated with it, rating the thirty-fourth in a class of
fifty-two. He was assigned to the 1st U. S. infantry, but was
soon afterward transferred to the 4th. In 1856 he was
stationed in Washington territory, defending the cascades of
the Columbia river against Indians. In May, 1861, he became a
captain, and in December was appointed chief quartermaster and
commissary in southwest Missouri, on the staff of Maj.-Gen.
Curtis. He was quartermaster at Gen. Halleck's headquarters
in April, 1862, but in response to an application from the
governor of Michigan, who wanted an educated soldier to
command the 2nd Mich. cavalry, Sheridan was made its colonel,
and so received his first command. In the advance on Corinth
he participated in several engagements, and on June 2, 1862,
he was placed in command of the 2nd cavalry brigade of the
Army of the Mississippi. At the battle of Booneville on July
1, where he was attacked by a force of Confederates at least
4,500 strong, he converted his defense into an offensive
movement by detaching a part of his force to take his foe in
the rear and flank, and the surprised enemy, utterly routed,
fled from the field. For this he received his star and
commission as brigadier-general of volunteers, dating July 1;
on Oct. 1 he found himself in command of the 11th division of
the army, and on the 8th of that month he took part in the
sanguinary battle of Perryville, holding the key-point of the
position and defending it successfully against several attacks
of the enemy. In the battle of Stone's river Sheridan
sustained four separate attacks, and four times repulsed the
enemy. On recommendation of Gen. W. S. Rosecrans, the U. S.
commander in that engagement, he was now made major-general of
volunteers, dating from the first day of the battle of Stone's
river. He remained with the Army of the Cumberland in its
march toward the Chickamauga creek, and in the battle of that
name, Sept. 19-20, 1863, he did his best to beat back the
furious storm which so nearly destroyed the Federal army, and
he never displayed more stubborn courage or military skill in a
subordinate sphere than on that eventful day. The battle of
Missionary ridge was fought two months later, and it was
Sheridan who, with his division, carried the ridge under a hot
enfilading fire from thirty pieces of Confederate artillery,
and a tempest of musketry from well-filled rifle pits on its
summit; worked his way up to the front till he reached the
highest crest, and then went thundering down the ridge until
within 500 yards of the headquarters of the Confederate
commanding general, Bragg. Competent authority declares that
in this battle he really did as much as in any other to earn
what finally came to him, the generalship of the U. S. army. He took command of the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac on
April 4, 1864, and at once set about making it a fighting
force, rather than a defensive picket-line for the infantry and
artillery. In June he was sent to cut the Virginia Central
railroad and unite with Gen. Hunter, who was then marching up
the valley of Virginia, and it was expected that this movement
would draw off the Confederate cavalry and leave the James
river free to the unimpeded passage of Gen. Grant's army. It
did so, Sheridan having on his route, however, to fight a smart
battle at Trevilian Station, as he also did at Darbytown, Va.,
in the month of July. Soon thereafter Sheridan came to the
leadership of the Army of the Shenandoah, by direct appointment
of Gen. Grant, after personally visiting Sheridan, and without
consulting the government at Washington. Sheridan attacked
Early on Sept. 19, and after a severe struggle scattered the
enemy in all directions, sending them "whirling through
Winchester," Va., and on Sept. 22, after pursuing Early, struck
him again in flank and rear at Fisher's hill where the Virginia
valley is but three miles wide. While he was in Winchester on
Oct. 19, his wily foe, Early, surprised the Federal forces in
their camp at Cedar creek, and drove back large portions of
them for six or seven miles in great disorder. This occasioned
the famous ride celebrated in song and story, and what appeared
like disastrous defeat was turned into a decided victory. Sheridan was at once made a major-general in the U. S. regular
army, in President Lincoln's words, "For the personal
gallantry, military skill, and just confidence in the courage
and gallantry of your troops, displayed by you on Oct. 19, at
Cedar run, whereby, under the blessing of Providence, your
routed army was reorganized, a great national disaster averted,
and a brilliant victory achieved over the rebels for the third
time in pitched battle within thirty days." Gen. Sheridan's
career from this time until the surrender of Lee is a part of
the history of the final days of the war, and after the
surrender he had charge of the Department of the Gulf, and
later he was commander of the Department of Missouri. He was
made U.S. lieutenant-general in 1869, when Gen. Grant was
elected president, the western and southwestern military
divisions of the United States were under his command in 1878,
and when Gen. Sherman was retired in 1883, Sheridan became
general-in-chief of the regular army, being the nineteenth
officer who had attained that rank. Gen. Sheridan died at Nonquitt, Mass. Aug. 5, 1888.
(From
Historical Data
System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com).
2-cent cancelled tax stamp on verso. VG. $100


CWCDV598. C.D. Fredricks & Co., 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. $100


CWCDV599. Morse's Gallery
of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn. Hugh Judson
Kilpatrick, major-general, was born in Deckertown, N. J. Jan. 14, 1836, and was
graduated at West Point in 1861. He was appointed captain of volunteers, May 9,
promoted 1st lieutenant of artillery, May 14, and in the action at Big Bethel on
June 10 received a severe wound which disabled him for several months. Upon his
return to the army he was detailed on recruiting duty, organized a regiment of
New York volunteer cavalry, of which he became lieutenant-colonel in September,
and in Jan., 1862, went to Kansas to accompany Gen. Lane in the expedition to
Texas as chief of artillery. Upon the abandonment of this project, Kilpatrick
rejoined his regiment in Virginia, where he participated in the skirmishes near
Falmouth in April, the movement to Thoroughfare gap in May; raids on the
Virginia Central railroad in July, and skirmishes at Carmel Church on July 23.
He was also present in various other skirmishes and at the second battle of Bull
Run, and in the expedition to Leesburg, Sept. 19, commanded a cavalry brigade.
After several months absence on recruiting service, during which time he became
colonel of the 2nd N. Y. Cavalry, he returned to the field and commanded a
brigade of cavalry in the Rappahannock campaign, engaging in Stoneman's raid
toward Richmond, April-May, 1863, and in the battle at Beverly ford on June 9.
He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, June 13, 1863, and
commanded a cavalry brigade and division in the Army of the Potomac,
participating in the actions at Aldie, where he commanded and won the brevet of
major, Middlebury, and Upperville and in the battles of Hanover, Hunterstown and
Gettysburg, and in the pursuit of the enemy after the last named battle, being
engaged in constant fighting at Smithsburg, Hagerstown, Boonsboro and Falling
Waters. He commanded a cavalry division in the operations in central Virginia
from August until Nov., 1863, took part in the expedition to destroy the
Confederate gunboats, "Satellite" and "Reliance," in Rappahannock river the
action at Culpeper on Sept. 13, and the subsequent skirmish at Somerville ford,
the fights at James City and Brandy Station, and in the movement to Centerville
and the action at Gainesville, Oct.19. He participated in the action at Ashland,
Va., May 1, 1864, in many skirmishes, and took part in the invasion of Georgia
as commander of a cavalry division of the Army of the Cumberland, being engaged
in the action at Ringgold, April 29, the operations about Dalton, May 7-13, and
in the battle of Resaca where he was severely wounded. Having previously been
brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry at Gettysburg, he was given the
brevet rank of colonel for gallant and meritorious conduct at Resaca, and upon
his return to the service in the latter part of July, 1864, guarded Sherman's
communications, and raided and took part in several heavy skirmishes with the
Confederates. He participated in numerous skirmishes during the march to the sea
and commanded a cavalry division during the invasion of the Carolinas, where he
engaged in many actions and skirmishes. From April to June, 1865, he commanded a
division of the cavalry corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi. He
was brevetted major-general of volunteers Jan. 15,1865, and brigadier-general
and major-general U. S. A. on March 13 of that year, resigning his volunteer
commission Jan. 1, 1866, and his commission in the regular army in 1867. Gen.
Kilpatrick was envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Chile,
1865-68, an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1880, and was appointed
minister to Chile again in 1881. He died in Santiago, Chile, Dec. 4, 1881,
and his remains were afterward brought to the United States and buried at West
Point N. Y. (From
Historical Data
System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com).
VG. $85


CWCDV600. No ID. Philip Kearny, major-general, was born in New York city, June 2, 1815. He was graduated at Columbia in 1833 and studied law, but in 1837 accepted a commission as 2nd lieutenant in the 1st dragoons, commanded by his uncle, Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, and served at Jefferson barracks and on the frontier. In 1839 he went to France with two other officers to study military tactics at the Royal cavalry school, at Saumur. After six months of this experience he went to Algiers as honorary aide-de-camp to the Duke of Orleans, and was present in several notable exploits while attached to the First Chasseurs d'Afrique in the campaign against Abdel-Kader, the Arab chief. On returning to the United States in the autumn of 1840 he was made aide-de-camp to Gen. Alexander Macomb, commander-in-chief of the U. S. army, and to his successor, Gen. Winfield Scott, 1840-44. He was at Fort Leavenworth and accompanied the expedition through the South Pass, 1844-46, resigned his commission, April 2, 1846, and at the outbreak of the Mexican war was reinstated. He recruited his company up to the war footing at Springfield, equipped it magnificently and operated at first along the Rio Grande, but later joined Gen. Scott on his march to Mexico, the company acting as body-guard to the general-in-chief. Kearny was promoted captain in Dec., 1846, and distinguished
himself at Contreras and Churubusco, and at the close of the latter battle, as the Mexicans were retreating into the capital, Capt. Kearny, at the head of his dragoons, followed them into the city itself. While retreating he was shot in the left arm, which caused that member to be amputated. For this action he was brevetted major, and, on returning to New York, he was presented with a splendid sword by the Union club. After being stationed in New York on recruiting service he was engaged, in 1851, in the campaign against the Rogue
River Indians, but resigned in October of that year and took a trip around the world. In 1859 he was again in France, and, joining his old comrades in the 1st Chasseurs d'Afrique, participated in the war in Italy, winning by his gallantry on the field of Solferino the decoration of the cross of the Legion of Honor. Returning to the United States shortly after the beginning of the Civil war, he offered his services to the national government and to his native state, and, no command being conceded him, entered the volunteer service as commander of the 1st N. J. brigade. He was subsequently given by President Lincoln a commission as brigadier-general of volunteers, to date from May 17, 1861, and was assigned to
command the 1st N. J. brigade in Gen. William B. Franklin's division, Army of the Potomac. Gen. Kearny was present at the battle of Williamsburg, where, arriving at 2:30 p. m., he reinforced Gen. Hooker's division, recovered the ground lost and turned defeat into victory. He served through the engagements of the Peninsula, then, with the Army of Virginia, from Rapidan to Warrenton. He was given command of a division in May, 1862, and was given a commission as major-general of volunteers to bear the date of July 4, which, however, never reached him. At the second battle of Bull Run he was in command on the right and forced Jackson's corps back against Gen. Longstreet's men. He was killed on the battleground of Chantilly, Va., Sept. 1, 1862. Gen. Kearny had, while
reconnoitering, inadvertently penetrated the Confederate lines and was trying to escape when he was shot through the spine and instantly killed. His remains were sent by Lee under flag of truce to Gen. Hooker, and in City Park, Newark, N. J., the citizens of New Jersey erected a statue to his memory. Gen.
Scott said of Kearny, "He was the bravest man I ever knew and the most perfect soldier."
(From
Historical Data
System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com).
G. $65


CWCDV601. F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia.
Andrew Jackson Smith, major-general, was born in the state of Pennsylvania and
was a cadet at the U. S. military academy from July 1, 1834 to July 1, 1838,
when he was graduated and promoted in the army to second lieutenant in the 1st
dragoons. He served at Carlisle barracks, Pa., in the cavalry school for
practice, 1838-39; on recruiting service, 1839-40; on frontier duty at Ft.
Leavenworth, Kan., 1840-46, and he was commissioned first lieutenant in the 1st
dragoons on May 4, 1845. He served in the war with Mexico, 1847-48, being
commissioned captain in the 1st dragoons on Feb. 16, 1847, and was on frontier
duty at San Francisco, Cal., 1848-49. He was on recruiting service, 1849-53;
stationed at Fort Lane, Ore., 1853-55; took part in the Oregon hostilities
during the latter year, being engaged in the skirmish at Cow creek on Oct. 31,
was in the Rogue River expedition in 1856, being engaged with hostile Indians in
several skirmishes during March and June, and he was stationed at Fort Yamhill,
Ore., 1856-57. He was on the Oregon war claims commission, 1857-58 and on
frontier duty at Fort Walla Walla, Wash 1858-59. He was at Fort Vancouver,
Wash., 1859-60, and was engaged against the Snake Indians in skirmishes near
Harney lake on May 24 and near Owyhee river on June 23. He was stationed at Fort
Walla Walla, 1860-61, and was on the march to Nez Perce Agency in the latter
year, being commissioned major in the 1st dragoons on May 13 and transferred to
the 1st cavalry on Aug. 13. He served during the Civil war, first as colonel of
the 2nd Cal. cavalry to which position he was appointed on Oct. 2, 1861; was
chief of cavalry, Department of the Missouri, from Feb. 11 to March 11, 1862 and
of the Department of the Mississippi, March 11 to July 11, being engaged in the
advance upon and siege of Corinth, April 15 to May 30, including several
skirmishes. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, March 17, 1862;
was in command of the troops in Covington, Ky., and vicinity, Sept. 9-Oct. 9; in
command of a division in the movements through Kentucky, October-November; was
stationed at Memphis, Tenn., Nov 28 to Dec. 21, and was on the expedition to the
Yazoo river in December, being engaged in the assault of Chickasaw bluffs on
Dec. 27-29. He was in the expedition to Arkansas Post, which was carried by
assault on Jan. 11, 1863; in the Vicksburg campaign from January to July,
commanding a division in the 13th army corps, and was engaged in the advance to
Grand Gulf, the battles of Port Gibson, Champion's hill, Big Black river,
assaults on Vicksburg, May 19 and 22, the siege of the place, and the capture of
Jackson, Miss., on July 16. He was in command of the 6th division, 16th army
corps, and District of Columbus, Ky., from Aug. 5, 1863, to Jan. 21, 1864; in
command of the 3d division, 16th army corps, Jan. 24 to March 6, in the
Department of the Tennessee; was in the Red River campaign, commanding
detachments of the 16th and 17th army corps March 6 to May 22, and was engaged
in the assault and capture of Fort De Russy, the battle of Pleasant Hill, the
action at Cane river, and in covering the retreat of Gen. Banks' army, with
almost daily heavy skirmishing. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 5h
cavalry on May 9, major-general of volunteers on May 12, and was in command of
the right wing of the 16th army corps in the operations in Mississippi and
Tennessee from June to September, being engaged in the actions
near Lake Village and Tupelo Miss., and on the expedition from Memphis to Holly
Springs. He was engaged in the operations in Missouri, covering St. Louis from a
threatened attack by Gen. Price; in command of a detachment of the Army of the
Tennessee in Maj.-Gen. Thomas, campaign against the Confederates under Gen.
Hood, from Dec., 1864 to Jan., 1865, being engaged in the battle of Nashville
and the pursuit of the enemy to Pulaski. He was in the movement from Eastport,
Miss., via Cairo, to New Orleans, Feb. 6-21, 1865, in command of the 16th army
corps, Feb. 18-July 20, being brevetted brigadier-general U. S. A., on March 13,
1865, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Tupelo, and the
brevet title of major-general, U. S. A., was conferred upon him at the same time
for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Nashville. He was engaged
in the Mobile campaign, taking part in the siege of Spanish Fort, but was in
reserve during the storming of Blakely. He was in the movement to and occupation
of Montgomery, Ala., making detachments to various points in Alabama, was in
command of the District of Montgomery, and later of the District of Western
Louisiana, Oct. 27, 1865 to Jan. 15, 1866, when he was mustered out of the
volunteer service. He was on the board for the recommendation of officers for
brevet promotions from March 10 to June 22, and he was commissioned colonel of
the 7th cavalry on July 28, 1866. He served in command of the District of Upper
Kansas from Nov. 25, 1866 to Sept., 1867, and of the Department of Missouri from
Sept. 14, 1867, to March 2, 1868, when he was given a leave of absence, and he
resigned from the service on May 6, 1869. He was appointed postmaster of St.
Louis, Mo., on April 3, 1869, and he pursued vocations of civil life until Jan.
22, 1889, when he was recommissioned colonel of cavalry and placed upon the
retired list. Gen. Smith died on Jan. 30, 1897. (From
Historical Data
System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com).
G. $125


CWCDV602. No ID. Major-General William Farrar Smith (1824-1903). VG. $75


CWCDV603. Morse's Gallery of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn. General George
Henry Thomas (1816-1870). 2-cent cancelled tax stamp on verso. VG. $125


CWCDV604. Brady's National Photographic Galleries, Wash DC & NY. Gen'l
Joseph Hooker. M.B. Brady's 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Corners clipped.
VG. $100


CWCDV605. Brady's National Photographic
Galleries, Wash DC & NY. General Samuel Peter Heintzelman (1805-1880). G. $85


CWCDV606. Morse's Gallery of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn. Major General
David Sloane Stanley (1828-1902). 2-cent cancelled tax stamp on verso. Corners
clipped. VG. $150


CWCDV607. Miles & Foster, Philadelphia. Capt. Horace Neide, Co. A, PA 31
Infantry. POW 6/30/62, Charles City Cross Roads, WIA, exchanged; discharged
wounded 11/25/62; 6/18/63 Veteran Reserve Corps 22nd..VG. $200


CWCDV610. No ID. Major General George Sykes (1822-1880) as Major 1861, in
command of the Washington Garrison. VG. $150


CWCDV611. Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony.
General George Crockett Strong (1833-1863). WIA in the assault on Fort Wagner,
Charleston Harbor; died 12 days later in NYC. Top corners slightly clipped.
VG. $250


CWCDV612. No ID. Col. Joseph Hancock Taylor, 6th U.S. Cavalry. VG. $175


CWCDV616. Wenderoth & Taylor,
Philadelphia, published by McAllister & Bro. Brig.-Gen'l Henry Morris Naglee
(1815-1886). WIA Fair Oaks, '62. VG. $150


CWCDV617. No ID. Union color guard in front of stagecoach, unknown location.
Fair. $500


CWCDV619. No ID. Brigadier General Jacob Dolson Cox (1828-1900). VG. $50


CWCDV620. Hoelke & Benecke, St. Louis, Mo. Unidentified soldier. VG. $45


CWCDV621. Mrs. Staunton, Bath School of
Photography, London. "Manuel, stowaway found on Kearsarge after crossing
Lisbon." As he is in uniform and armed, he became part of the crew that
participated in the sinking of the CSS Alabama on June 19, 1864. This is almost
certainly Manuel Jose Gallardo, 2nd Class Boy, who is listed as part of the crew
during the battle in Fire on the Water: The USS Kearsarge and the CSS
Alabama, by James Gindlesperger. VG. $750


CWCDV622. No ID. CDV of Union 1st Sergeant Frederick A. Smith, 1st Rhode
Island Light Artillery full standing pose on the front of a Social Party
invitation to him to attend at Ripley's Hall, North Easton, Thursday, March 23,
1865. Earlier in the war Smith also served in the MA 4th Infantry. G. $150


CWCDV624. J. Gurney & Son, NY. The Chicago Zouaves. This image probably
taken in July 1860 during their visit to NYC. Trimmed o/w VG+. $1850


CWCDV625. Evans & Prince, York, Pa. Private with bayoneted rifle, at
attention. VG. $140


CWCDV626. E.W. Beckwith, Alexandria, Va. Unidentified Union solider in Union
sack coat smoking a cigar. 2-cent tax stamp on verso, hand cancelled "E.W.B. Aug
16." G. $65


CWCDV628. J.E. McClees, Philadelphia. John J.M. Angier, M.D., Assistant
Surgeon, US Colored Troops 25th Infantry. Trimmed at bottom o/w VG. $200


CWCDV629. Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony.
General Hooker (1814-1879). WIA Antietam. Brady's 1862 copyright line bottom
recto. G. $95


CWCDV630. Brady's National Portrait
Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony. General Hooker (1814-1879). WIA Antietam. He
is seen here holding a cane. Brady's 1862 copyright line bottom recto. G. $125


CWCDV631. E. Anthony, NY. Governor Sprague. William Sprague IV (1830-1915).
Served as Governor of RI from 1860-'63; Senator from '63-'75. Thinking that the
war would only last 48 hours, Gov. Sprague participated in the First Battle of
Bull Run, about the time this image was taken. G. $95


CWCDV632. R.W. Addis, Photographer, McClees' Gallery, Washington, DC.
Unusual backmark that actually identifies the particular photographer in an
owner's studio. General George Archibald McCall (1802-1868). Taken prisoner at
Glendale. Corners trimmed. G. $95


CWCDV633. Broadbent & Co., Philadelphia. Major-General Oliver Otis Howard
(1830-1909). WIA twice at Fair Oaks resulting in the amputation of his right
arm. VG. $125


CWCDV634. No ID. Commodore George Smith Blake (1803-1871), Commandant of the
US Naval Academy at Annapolis during the Civil War. VG. $135


CWCDV635. No ID. Major-General Morgan Smith (1821-1874). 2-cent cancelled
tax stamp on verso. VG. $95


CWCDV636. Brigham, Dover, NH. First Lieut. Thomas Albert Henderson, 7th NH
Vols. KIA at Deep Bottom Run, Va. on 8/16/64, suffering a severe wound to his
hip. Henderson's bust image (below) is illustrated in Norwich University,
1819-1911, Her History, Her Graduates, Her Roll of Honor, compiled and
edited by William A. Ellis. G. $150


CWCDV637. A. Sonrel, Boston. Thomas A. Henderson, 7th NH Vols. KIA at Deep
Bottom Run, Va. on 8/16/64, suffering a severe wound to his hip. This image has
a 3-cent cancelled tax stamp on verso dated Oct. 10, 1864. This is nearly two
months following Henderson's death in action and was likely issued after his
death. Support of this comes from the fact that Henderson is pictured in his
First Lieut. uniform although he went on to be promoted to Lt. Col. 7/22/63.
This was likely the image that was preferred for his post mortem issuance. This
image is illustrated in Norwich University, 1819-1911, Her History, Her
Graduates, Her Roll of Honor, compiled and edited by William A. Ellis. VG.
$150


CWCDV638. S.C. Landon, New Milford, Conn. Sergeant Charles Lewis. Not sure
which "Charles Lewis" this guy is as there are several. G. $85


CWCDV639. C.D. Fredricks & Co., NY. General David Bell Birney (1825-1864).
WIA Gettysburg. Bottom trimmed, corners clipped. Image is VG. $150


CWCDV641. Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, NY & Wash DC.
Captain William Lynn (possibly Lyne). G. $100


CWCDV643. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony, NY.
Louis Philippe d'Orleans, comte de Paris, and Robert d'Orleans, duc de Chartres,
French nobles serving in the Peninsular Campaign of McClellan as aides-de-camp.
G+. $125


CWCDV646. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony, NY.
Gen. Irvin McDowell (1818-1885). G. $100


CWCDV647. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony, NY.
Gen. George Stoneman (1822-1894), served as California Governor 1883-'87. G.
$100


CWCDV648. Brady's National Portrait
Gallery, published by E. Anthony, NY. Major-Gen. Ormsby McKnight Mitchel
(1810-1862), born in
Morganfield, Ky., Aug. 28, 1810. He was graduated at the United States military
academy in 1829, served as assistant professor of mathematics at West Point for
two years, and was then on garrison duty until Sept. 30, 1832, when he resigned.
He was in that year admitted to the bar, practiced two years in
Cincinnati, was chief engineer of the Little Miami railroad, 1836-37, and
professor of mathematics, astronomy and philosophy at Cincinnati college,
1834-44. He raised almost all the money for the establishment of an
observatory at Cincinnati, which was the first of the larger observatories to be
built in the United States and in 1843 the corner-stone of the pier for the
great telescope was laid by John Quincy Adams. Prof. Mitchel lectured
extensively throughout the United States from 1842 to 1848; was adjutant-general
of the state of Ohio, 1841-48; chief engineer of the Ohio & Mississippi
railroad, 1848-49, and again
in 1852-53, and was director of the Dudley observatory at Albany, N. Y., in
1859-61. He invented a number of valuable mechanical devices for use in
astronomy, and gained great distinction in his profession. He was commissioned
brigadier-general of volunteers, Aug. 9, 1861, and at first reported to Gen.
McClellan, who assigned him the command of Gen. William B. Franklin's brigade in
the Army of the Potomac; but at the request of the citizens of Cincinnati he was
transferred to that city and commanded the Department of the Ohio from Sept. 19
to Nov. 13 1861. He served with the Army of the Ohio during the campaigns of the
winter of 1861-62 in Tennessee and northern Alabama, took part in the occupation
of Bowling Green, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., the march to Huntsville, Ala., in the
action near Bridgeport, Ala., April 30, 1862, and was promoted major-general of
volunteers to date from April 11, 1862. He took possession of the railroad from
Decatur to Stephenson, by which the control of northern Alabama was secured to
the Federal authorities. He was anxious to advance into the heart of the South,
but was restrained by his superior officer, Gen. Buell, and in consequence of a
dispute with Buell he tendered his resignation to the secretary of war and was
transferred to the command of the Department of the South, with headquarters at
Hilton Head, S. C., Sept. 17, 1862. He died of yellow fever at Hilton Head, Oct.
30, 1862. (From
Historical Data
System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com).
G. $150


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CWCAB14. Theodore Wiseman, Lawrence, Kansas from original wartime
albumens taken exclusively by Southern photographer A. J. Riddle in August 1864.
This is the rare complete series issued by Wiseman, all cabinet cards, 6
or which are trimmed to 4.25" x 5.25", not effecting images, with one 6" x
4.25," trimmed slightly at top. Each card has printed text and 1883 copyright by
Theodore Wiseman. Wiseman claimed to have secured the "original views in
1865, in an old chest, in old Captain Wirz's house, at Andersonville, Ga."
Wiseman retained the Riddle titles only removing Riddle's credit line below the
title. For further information on these
images, the reader is referred to The Blue and Gray in Black and White,
by Bob Zeller, pps. 150-151. G-VG. $2500












CWALB1. Civil War CDV album with 78 images, 70 are CDVs, 8 are
tintypes.
I have removed all of the images from the album so that I could scan all of them
front and back. The images will not be put back in the album but will be kept
separate. Here is what is included in this album:
12 Generals and Admirals, 6 are by Brady, 1 by Gardner, 1 by Landy, Cincinnati,
2 by Anthony, 1 with Earle's store label covering backmark, 1 with no backmark.
Included in this group are: Maj. Gen. Fremont; Gen. Pope; Gen. Dix; Gen. John
Gray Foster, severely wounded in Mexican War, Chief Engineer of Charleston
Harbor; Gen. Alfred Pleasonton; Gen. Meade; Gen. Buell; Milroy (Navy); Gen.
Lyon; Admiral Dahlgren; 2 w/o ID.
There is one image from Brady's Album Gallery. It is No. 407. St. Peter's
Church, Yorktown, Built 1717. Where George Washington was married.
Then there are 21 Civil War soldiers, all but one real photo images. Two are by
Brady; 1 by L. Nelson, Springfield, Mass; 1 by Maurice Stadtfeld, NY; 1 by C.C.
Giers, Nashville, Tenn; 1 by Millice, Warsaw, Ind; 1 by J.C. Elrod's Gallery, no
place indicated with cancelled 3-cent tax stamp; 1 by Guay's New Orleans
identified as BBC Charles Hamlin; 1 by Vanderzee & Hays, Albany, NY; 1 by
Morse's, Gallery of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn; 1 by Elias E. Hoffenberger,
no place; 1 by R.W. Addis, Wash DC; 1 by Cahill, Boston; 1 by G.H. Loomis,
Boston. Six w/o backmark including one identified as Capt. Wiseman, another as
Samuel R. Thomas, 64th USCT, one showing two bearded soldiers, one with his hand
on the other's shoulder. And there is one litho view of Col. Ellsworth.
There are 2 South American military CDVs, one by Carneiro & Gaspar, Sao Paulo;
the other by Jouant Y Lamore, Montevideo.
There are 3 postwar CDV of military men, one by L. Thomson, Norwich, Conn; 1 by
A. Marshall, Boston; 1 by Warren, Boston.
There is one CDV of the Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument by Randall,
Detroit, Michigan.
There are 8 tintypes, one appears to be a veteran. One is by Carleton's
Photograph Gallery, Waterville, Me; one is Wing's patented CDV card.
There are 21 CDVs that are generally of personalities such as actors,
politicians, etc. 3 of these are Brady/Anthony; 2 Anthony; 1 Gardner; 9 Gurney;
1 by Meade Brothers; 1 by Rice & Allen, Kalamazoo, Mich; 1 that looks like HB; 3
w/o backmark. There is one of Stephen A. Douglas, one of his wife; other names
are Julien, Formes, or Formis; Miss Chesney (general's wife); Mrs. Crosby
(general's wife); JM Graham; Miss Howard; Mrs. Gladstone; Nathalie Didier; Mrs.
SE Ryan; Miss Hernadi; Mr. Foley; James Brookes; Mr. Vincent; Mr. Young Albion;
Prof. Albert Manny; & Kavanagh.
Wrapping up the album there are 9 CDVs of civilians: 1 by Graham of Pittsburg,
Pa; 1 by London Stereoscopic Co; 2 of a profile of a young girl by E. Woodward &
Co., West Chester with 2-cent tax stamps; 1 by Venner, Castine, Me; 1 by
Freeman, Charlestown, Mass; 1 by MC Tuttle, Belfast, Me; 1 by James G. Smith,
Vallejo, Cal. with inscription in French; & 1 w/o backmark.
The album is in good condition, missing one clasp.
Condition of images vary from G- to VG. $1750


CWCDV649. D.P. Parr, Army Photographer, Palace of Art, Vicksburg, Miss.
Unidentified soldier. VG. $65
Other Civil War-related CDVs are listed on the
Political CDV page.
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