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

CWCDV9. H. Glosser, NY. Carte of standing bearded soldier.  Corners clipped. E. $50

CWCDV31. No ID. Unidentified image of soldier, arm on chair. VG. $60

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. $95

  
CWCDV69. Keenan's Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. Unidentified soldier with 3-cent green tax stamp on verso. VG. $50

  
CWCDV73. No ID. "R.R. Eshleman, Captain Foster's Clerk," written on verso. VG. $75

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. $175

  
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. $125

     
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. $150

     
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. $175

     
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. $150

     
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. $150

     
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. $100

     
CWCDV179. H.P. Ross, Groton Junction, Mass. "Joseph Austin Bacon, Cornelia's Grandfather Bacon in Civil War," pencilled on verso. 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." 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. $125

     
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

  
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

  
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. $125

     
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

     
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

     
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

     
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

     
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

     
CWCDV278. Washburn, New Orleans.  James W. Fee - Co. B, 99th Ill. Inf. Id'ed from another copy of the same image on David Parks' website which has a period ink ID on reverse and photographers backmark of Washburn - New Orleans. Fee was mustered in on 8/23/62 and mustered out on an unknown date. He was promoted to Captain on 12/24/62. He lived in Perry, Illinois. 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

     
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

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

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

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

     
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

     
CWCDV400. E&HT Anthony, NY. General Michael Corcoran (1827-1863), brigadier-general, was born in Carrowkeel, Ireland, Sept. 21, 1827.  His father, a captain in the British army, gave him a good education, and procured for him a commission in the Irish constabulary in 1845. This he resigned, being unwilling to oppress his people and in 1849 he emigrated to America, locating in New York. He joined the militia there as a private, rose through the grades to the rank of colonel, 1859, and when Prince Albert of Wales visited this country, he refused to order out the regiment, the 69th, to do honor to the prince. For this he was subjected to trial by court-martial, that was still pending when the Civil war began. Upon the first call for troops, he led the 69th to the seat of war, and, being ordered to Virginia built Fort Corcoran on Arlington Heights, and then led it into the battle of Bull Run, where he fought with impetuous gallantry. He was wounded and captured, and spent nearly a year in various Confederate prisons, refusing to accept a release conditional upon his promise not to take up arms again in defense of the Union. Upon being exchanged, Aug. 15, 1862, he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers to date from July 21, 1861, and organized the Corcoran legion, which he commanded in the battles on the James, near Suffolk, in April, 1863, and in checking the advance of the Confederates upon Norfolk. The legion was attached to the Army of the Potomac, in Aug., 1863, and Gen. Corcoran was killed by the falling of his horse upon him while riding in company with Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, Dec. 22, 1863. (From Historical Data System’s American Civil War Research Database at civilwardata.com). Trimmed at bottom. VG. $250

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CWCDV421. No backmark. Major-General Henry Wager Halleck (1815-1872). Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY. VG. $65

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

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

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

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

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

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. $275

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. Captain William Levereth Hudson, USN (11 May 1794 – 15 October 1862) was a US Navy officer in the first half of the 19th century. Hudson was born 11 May 1794 in Brooklyn. His first service afloat was in the Mediterranean Squadron under Commodore William Bainbridge in the schooner Alert and sloop-of-war Ontario from 1815 to 1817. Hudson was appointed midshipman 1 January 1816. In 1821 – 1823 he served in Dolphin on the Pacific coast of South America, and in Warren for a Mediterranean cruise 1826 –1829. In 1830 – 1831 Hudson accompanied Lieutenant Ramsey on a tour to Russia, and then assumed duty at the NY Navy Yard. In June 1838 he was ordered to command Peacock, attached to Commander Charles Wilkes' exploring expedition. After strenuous service in the Antarctic, the South Seas, and along the coast of North America, Peacock was wrecked 18 July 1841 while attempting to cross the bar and enter the Columbia River on Wilkes' orders. Commander Hudson made every effort to free his ship but was forced to leave her, fortunately saving all his men and the scientific papers. In September 1849, after shore and lighthouse duty, he was ordered to command Vincennes, cruising the Pacific until 1852. In March 1857 Hudson, appointed captain 8 October 1855, assumed command of Niagara. That August, in conjunction with British ships, he made the first attempt at laying a transatlantic cable. This try was unsuccessful, but a second attempt met with success 10 August 1858. After commanding the Boston Navy Yard 1858 – 1862, Captain Hudson was made Inspector of the 3d Light House District. He died 15 October 1862 in Brooklyn, aged 68. Three ships have been named USS Hudson in his honor. Trimmed at bottom. VG. $150

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. $150

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CWCDV640. Webster & Bro., Louisville. Col. Franklin F. Flint (1821-1891), 16th US Infantry. Mount has been trimmed, image VG. $125

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

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

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

CWCDV650. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony. Charles Frederick Henningsen (1815-1877) was an Anglo-America writer, mercenary, filibuster, munitions expert. He participated in civil wars and independence movements in Spain, Nicaragua, Hungary, and the US. His parents were Swedish, but he was born in England. He became a US citizen and was married to a niece of John M. Berrien, U.S. Senator from Georgia. Henningsen continued to pursue filibuster schemes and fought in the Civil War for the Confederacy for a year, being made brigadier-general, and frequently had command of the defenses of Richmond He was involved in the Battle of Elizabeth City. After the war he took up residence in Wash DC and was involved in the movement to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule. During his declining years, he lived in straitened circumstances, but was supported by friends such as Colonel Albert Pike. VG. $125

CWCDV653. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 496. Gen'l Fitz John Porter and Staff, at Headquarters, Westover, Westover Landing, Va. July 16, 1862. This image measures 2 7/8" x 4 1/8." There are 3 black people posed along with the soldiers. VG. $650

CWCDV654. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 394. Camp of 66th N.Y.V. (French's Brigade) at St. Peter's Church, Yorktown. Brady's 1862 copyright line bottom recto. VG. $350

CWCAB16. Brady's Album Gallery. Album Card measuring 4.5" x 6." No. 408. Major Gen'l E.V. Sumner, at his Quarters near Yorktown, May, 1862. VG. $650

CWCAB17. Brady's Album Gallery. Album Card measuring 4.5" x 6." No. 421. General French, Taken in Camp on the Chickahominy, 29th of May, 1862. VG. $650

CWCDV655. No ID. Aspinwall Hall, Fairfax Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia, 1864. This was a Union hospital and several of the people in the seen are soldiers. G. $200

CWCDV656. Selden & Ennis. Views in Richmond and Vicinity. Belle Island. Belle Isle was originally known as Broad Rock Island. It was first explored by Captain John Smith in 1607. In the 18th century the island was occupied by a fishery. In 1814, the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Company completed a nail factory. During the 1860's, the island was inhabited by a village complete with a school, church, and general store. The island served as a prison for Union soldiers during the Civil War. Between 1862 and 1865, the island was home to about 30,000 POWs and as many as 6,000 died there. The nail factory was re-opened after the civil war and remained in operation until 1972. A list of prisoners who died at Belle Isle is available. The Battle of Walkerton was the result of a failed Union attempt to free them. In April 1864, Peter DeWitt, Assistant Surgeon at Jarvis Hospital, Baltimore, received a number of prisoners recently released from the Prisoner of War camp at Belle Isle. He described the "great majority" of the patients as being:

"in a semi-state of nudity...laboring under such diseases as chronic diarrhea, phthisis pulmonalis, scurvy, frost bites, general debility, caused by starvation, neglect and exposure. Many of them had partially lost their reason, forgetting even the date of their capture, and everything connected with their antecedent history. They resemble, in many respect, patients laboring under cretinism. They were filthy in the extreme, covered in vermin...nearly all were extremely emaciated; so much so that they had to be cared for even like infants." [United States Sanitary Commission, p.179, Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers.]

CDV. VG. $150

CWCDV658. John C. Taylor, Hartford, Conn. The War for the Union Photographic History. Transports and Monitors on the James River. VG. $85

CWCDV659. John C. Taylor, Hartford, Conn. The War for the Union Photographic History. Aiken's Landing, James River. G. $65

CWCDV660. John C. Taylor, Hartford, Conn. The War for the Union Photographic History. 2468, '69, '70. Monitor Canonicus, on the James River, taking in coal. VG. $85

CWCDV661. C.D. Fredricks & Co., NY. General T.J. Jackson, Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863). VG. $250

CWCDV664. No ID. Image measuring 2 1/2" x 2," identified on verso as "Chas. A. Clark, Co. K, 8th Mass." Also written on back is "Uniform Allen Guard Pittsfield," "Co. K M.V.M.," "Capt? 21st Mass Vol.," and "Killed ..." and for the life of me I can't figure out the next two words! Also there is an "A" on his kepi which would indicate Co. A, so the information on back is questionable. VG. $125

CWCDV666. No ID. "101" in lower left corner. On back is written "Allen Guard of Pittsfield Mass. at Relay House, Md. June 1861. 1-2nd Muster? Dodge; 2-Sgt. Israel G. Weller; 3--; 4-Sgt Goodrich ...??? & Lieut of Co."
Information on Alonzo E. Goodrich: Residence Pittsfield MA; a 47 year-old Carpenter. Enlisted on 4/16/1861 as a 1st Sergeant. On 4/30/1861 he mustered into "K" Co. MA 8th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 8/1/1861 at Boston, MA. On 9/4/1862 he was commissioned into Field & Staff MA 37th Infantry. He Resigned on 1/16/1863. Promotions: * 2nd Lieut 6/15/1861; * Lt Colonel 9/4/1862 (As of 37th MA Infantry).
Information on Israel C. Weller: Residence Pittsfield MA; 21 years old. Enlisted on 4/18/1861 as a Sergeant. On 4/30/1861 he mustered into "K" Co. MA 8th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 8/1/1861 at Boston, MA. He also had service in: "A" Co. MA 49th Infantry  (9 months).
Information on Emerson J. Dodge: Residence Pittsfield MA; a 21 year-old Clerk. Enlisted on 4/18/1861 as a Private. On 4/30/1861 he mustered into "K" Co. MA 8th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 8/1/1861 at Boston, MA. On 2/19/1862 he mustered into "I" Co. MA 31st Infantry. He was discharged for promotion on 9/22/1863. On 9/23/1863 he was commissioned into "C" Co. US CT 91st Infantry. He was transferred out on 7/7/1864. On 7/7/1864 he transferred into "C" Co. US CT 74th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 10/11/1865. Promotions: * Sergt 2/19/1862 (As of Co. I 31st MA Inf); * 1st Lieut 9/23/1863 (As of Co. C 91st USCT Infantry). Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * from company C to company B (As of 74th USCT Infantry). VG. $450


CWCDV667. Brady, Washington DC. On back is written: "Presented to Mr. Wm. Thompson by His Nephew Henry N. Francis, Upton Hill Va. Oct. 1st 1862." G. $650

CWCDV668. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Alexander Hamilton Stephens (February 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was  from Georgia. He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. He also served as a US Representative from Georgia (both before the Civil War and after Reconstruction) and as the 50th Governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883. VG. $125

CWCDV669. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America. VG. $150

CWCDV670. Charles D. Fredricks & Co., New York. John Ericsson (July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889), a Swedish-American inventor and mechanical engineer. Amongst many other activities he worked on the design of the USS Monitor. VG. $150

CWCDV671. No ID. Chas. H. Simmons, 11th CT Vols. Info on Simmons: Residence Ashford CT; Enlisted on 10/5/1861 as a Private. On 10/24/1861 he mustered into "B" Co. CT 11th Infantry. He was dismissed on 11/2/1865. Promotions: * Corpl 7/25/1862 (As of Co. B); * Sergt 12/25/1862 (As of Co. D); * 1st Sergt 1/17/1863 (As of Co. H); * 2nd Lieut 8/9/1863 (As of Co. G); * 1st Lieut 4/9/1864 (As of Co. D); * Capt 8/22/1864 (As of Co. F). Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * 12/23/1862 from company B to company D; * 1/17/1863 from company D to company H; * 8/9/1863 from company H to company G; * 4/9/1864 from company G to company D; * 8/22/1864 from company D to company F. This is a trick photograph as Simmons is seated twice at the table. 1-cent cancelled revenue stamp on verso. VG. $250

CWCDV672. Union Gallery, Danbury, Conn. Bandsman with trumpet. From another copy of this CDV he is identified as from the 2nc CT Heavy Artillery. VG. $150

CWCDV675. Kenyon's Photograph Gallery, McGregor, Iowa. Unidentified soldier wearing 4th Corps badge. G. $75

CWCDV676. Kauffman & Abell, Martinsburg, W. Va. Unidentified WV private posed before military backdrop. 3-cent cancelled tax stamp on verso. G-. $85

CWCDV677. D.W. Bowdoin, Salem, Mass. Private Oliver W.H. Upham, 23rd Mass. Residence Salem MA; an 18 year-old Student. Enlisted on 10/21/1861 as a Private. On 12/4/1861 he mustered into "F" Co. MA 23rd Infantry. He was discharged for disability on 11/22/1861 at Annapolis, MD. On 5/26/1862 he mustered into MA Salem Cadets. He was Mustered Out on 10/11/1862 at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, MA. VG. $125

CWCDV678. Frederick Clark, Harrisburg, Pa. Capt. Hugh G. Brown, 15th Iowa. Residence Keosauqua IA; 27 years old. Enlisted on 12/1/1861 as a 2nd Lieutenant. On 12/1/1861 he was commissioned into "E" Co. IA 15th Infantry. He was discharged for promotion on 8/28/1863. On 8/28/1863 he was commissioned into US Volunteers Aide-de-Camp. He was Mustered Out on 7/10/1866 (Subsequent service in US Army until 05/16/1899). Promotions:
* 1st Lieut 7/9/1862; * Capt 8/28/1863 (Captain and Aide de Camp to General Ord); * Major 9/29/1864 by Brevet; * Lt Colonel 3/31/1865 by Brevet; * Capt 3/2/1867 by Brevet; * Major 3/2/1867 by Brevet. Other Information: born in Pennsylvania; died 11/30/1901. VG. $125

CWCDV685. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. General Benjamin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was a lawyer and politician who represented MA in the House of Representatives and later served as the 33rd Governor of Massachusetts. During the Civil War, he served as a major general in the Union Army. His administration of occupied New Orleans, his policies regarding slaves as contraband, his ineffectual leadership in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, and the fiasco of Fort Fisher rank him as one of the most controversial political generals of the war. He was widely reviled for years after the war by Southern whites, who gave him the nickname "Beast Butler." VG. $85

CWCDV686. D. Appleton & Co. Rear Admiral Charles S. Boggs, USN, (1811-1877). Charles Stuart Boggs was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on 28 January 1811. He was appointed a U.S. Navy Midshipman in November 1826 and was assigned to the Boston Navy Yard until 1830, when he began two years at sea on board the brig Porpoise. For the rest of the 1830s and the 1840s he had duties ashore and afloat, receiving his commission as Lieutenant in 1837, while serving in the ship of the line North Carolina. He was an officer in the steamer Princeton during the Mexican War and executive officer of the frigate St. Lawrence in 1851. Promoted to the rank of Commander in 1855, Boggs commanded two mail steamers during the next four years and was a light house inspector at San Francisco California in 1860-1861. In December 1861 Boggs was given command of the gunboat Varuna, fighting her with distinction during the attack on New Orleans the following April. Receiving his Captain's commission in July 1862, during the rest of the Civil War he was commanding officer of the steam sloops Juniata and Sacramento, with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, the steam cruiser Connecticut in the West Indies, and had special duty at the New York Navy Yard. In 1866-1868 Boggs commanded the steamer DeSoto. As a Commodore, he had another tour of light house inspection service in 1869-1870, receiving promotion to Rear Admiral during this time. His final seagoing service was as commander of the European Fleet in 1871. Retired in January 1872, he remained on duty as Secretary of the Light House Board until mid-1873. Rear Admiral Charles S. Boggs died at New Brunswick, N.J., on 22 April 1877. USS Boggs (Destroyer # 136, later DD-136, IX-36, AG-19, DMS-3 and AG-19), 1918-1946, was named in honor of Charles S. Boggs. VG. $125

CWCDV687. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Admiral David Dixon Porter, USN, (1813-1891). David Dixon Porter was born at Chester, Pennsylvania, on 8 June 1813, the son of Commodore David Porter (1780-1843). His naval career began as a midshipman in 1829, and included service in the peacetime cruising Navy, the Mexican War and the U.S. Civil War. The latter conflict saw him rapidly rise from the rank of Lieutenant to Rear Admiral. In 1862, he was in charge of the Mortar Flotilla during the campaign to capture New Orleans and the lower Mississippi River. He took command of the Mississippi Squadron in October 1862 and led it through the active phase of the Western Rivers campaigns. Rear Admiral Porter spent the last several months of the Civil War in command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Following the War, Porter was promoted to Vice Admiral in 1866 and served as Superintendant of the Naval Academy. He became the Navy's senior officer, with the rank of Admiral in 1870, and remained an influential figure in naval affairs until his death on 13 February 1891. Five U.S. Navy ships have been named in honor of David Dixon Porter and his father, Commodore David Porter, including: Porter (TB-6), Porter (DD-59), Porter (DD-356), Porter (DD-800) and Porter (DDG-78). VG. $150

CWCDV688. Alexander Gardner, Wash, DC. "Yours Truly, Theo. Cox, Lt. Col. A.A.G." on back of carte. Enlisted, age 23, on 6/6/1862 as a 1st Lieutenant. On 6/6/1862 he was commissioned into "K" Co. OH 11th Infantry. He was discharged for promotion on 7/2/1864. (On detached service as Aid-de-camp to Brig. General J.D. Cox). On 7/2/1864 he was commissioned into US Volunteers Adjutant Genl Dept. He was Mustered Out on 11/22/1865. Promotions: * Capt 7/2/1864 (Captain & Asst Adjutant General); * Major 2/6/1865 (Major & Asst Adjutant General); * Colonel 3/13/1865 by Brevet;
* Lt Colonel 4/22/1865 (Lt Colonel & Asst Adjutant General). Other Information: born in 1839 in Brooklyn, NY; died 2/2/1892; Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH. 3-cent green, cancelled tax stamp on verso. Cancellation date is Jul 25, 1865. Corners clipped. VG. $125

CWCDV693. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (1809-1870). Dahlgren was a naval ordnance innovator and commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. Dahlgren became a midshipman in 1826. Service on the U.S. Coast Survey (1834-37) distinguished his early career. In 1847, Lieutenant Dahlgren was assigned to ordnance duty at the Washington Navy Yard. Over the next fifteen years, he invented and developed bronze boat guns, heavy smoothbore shell guns, and rifled ordnance. He also created the first sustained weapons R&D program and organization in U.S. naval history. For these achievements, Dahlgren became known as the "father of American naval ordnance." His heavy smoothbores, characterized by their unusual bottle shape, were derived from scientific research in ballistics and metallurgy, manufactured and tested under the most comprehensive program of quality control in the Navy to that time, and were the Navy's standard shipboard armament during the Civil War. Promoted to commander in 1855, captain in 1862, and rear admiral in 1863, he became commandant of the Washington Navy Yard in 1861 and chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in 1862. With help from his friend Abraham Lincoln, Dahlgren took command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in July 1863, and for the next two years led naval forces besieging Charleston in the Union navy's most frustrating campaign. Dahlgren cooperated magnificently with Army forces, but underhanded machinations by the ground force commander hindered the effort. Dahlgren's courage remained beyond question during naval attacks on enemy fortifications, but he never figured out how to counter the enemy's underwater defenses. As a leader, he took good care of his enlisted men, but failed to inspire his officers. After the war he commanded respectively the South Pacific Squadron, the Bureau of Ordnance, and the Washington Navy Yard. G. $125

CW694. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Major-general George Stoneman, was born in Busti, Chautauqua county, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1822. He was graduated at West Point in 1846 and entered the army as brevet second lieutenant in the 1st dragoons. In the regular army he was
promoted second lieutenant July l2, 1847, first lieutenant July 25, 1854, captain in the 2nd cavalry March 3, 1855, major in the 1st cavalry May 9, 1861, lieutenant-colonel of the 3d cavalry March 30, 1864, colonel of the 21st infantry July 28, 1866, retired Aug. 16, 1871, appointed colonel of infantry on
Feb. 9, 1891, and again retired on the 24th of the same month. In the volunteer army he was commissioned a brigadier-general Aug. 13, 1861, promoted major-general Nov. 29, 1862, and was mustered out of the service Sept. 1, 1866. During his active career he was brevetted colonel, U. S. army, Dec. 13, 1862, for services in the battle of Fredericksburg and brigadier-general and major-general on March 13, 1865, for services in the capture of Charlotte, N. C., and during the war, respectively. Gen. Stoneman's first military service was as quarter-master to the Mormon battalion at Santa Fe in 1847. He accompanied it into Mexico and after the war served on the Pacific coast till 1857, when he was transferred to Texas. In Feb., 1861, while in command of Fort Brown Tex., he was ordered by Gen. Twiggs, his superior officer, to surrender the fort and all Federal property in his charge to the state secession authorities, but he refused, evacuated the fort and hastened to New York City. In August, after serving in western Virginia, he was appointed chief of cavalry in the Army of the Potomac. He organized that branch of the army, commanded it during the Peninsular campaign of 1862 and brought on the battle of Williamsburg by overtaking the Confederate troops with his cavalry and artillery after they had evacuated Yorktown. After the second battle of Bull Run he was assigned to command Gen. Kearny's division and on Nov. 15, 1862, was appointed commander of the 3d army corps, with which he distinguished himself at Fredericksburg. In April and May, 1863, he commanded a cavalry corps in raids toward Richmond, and then till April, 1864, was in command of the 23d army corps. He was then assigned to command a cavalry corps in the Army of the Ohio. In the Atlanta campaign he undertook to capture Macon and Andersonville and release the prisoners confined in the latter place, but was himself captured at Clinton, Ga., and held a prisoner for three months. In Dec., 1864, he led a raid into southwestern Virginia; in Feb. and March, 1865, commanded the District of East Tennessee, led an expedition to Asheville, N. C., in March and April; and was engaged in the capture of Salisbury and the subsequent operations in North Carolina. After the war he purchased a ranch in Los Angeles county, Cal.; in 1882 was elected railroad commissioner of California as a Democrat; and the following year was elected governor of the state, serving till Jan., 1887. Gen. Stoneman died in Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1894. VG. $150

CWCDV695. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth. Enlisted on 4/20/1861 at New York City, as a Colonel. On 5/7/1861 he was commissioned into Field & Staff NY 11th Infantry. He was Killed on 5/24/1861 at Alexandria, VA. (Killed by Mr. Jackson, proprietor of the Marshall House  hotel.) Other Information: born 4/23/1837 in Mechanicsville, NY. Buried: Mechanicsville, Saratoga County, NY. VG. $125

CWCDV696. D. Appleton & Co, 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. VG. $75

CWCDV699. J.C. Spooner, Springfield, Mass. "Yours for the War H.O. Wiley." This is Captain Henry O. Wiley, 123rd NY Vols. 31 years old when he enlisted on 8/22/1862 at Salem, NY as a Captain. On 9/10/1862 he was commissioned into "K" Co. NY 123rd Infantry. He was Killed on 7/20/1864 at Peach Tree Creek, GA. Corners clipped o/w VG. $225

CWCDV700. Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Wash. DC. Capt. Charles W. Gleason, 2nd R.I. Infantry. Enlisted on 6/5/1861 as a Private. On 6/5/1861 he mustered into "A" Co. RI 2nd Infantry. He Re-enlisted on 12/26/1863. He was Killed on 4/6/1865 at Sailor's Creek, VA. He was listed as:
* Detailed 11/15/1862 Regt Provost Sergeant; * Returned 3/3/1863 (place not stated); * Absent as Vet Vol 2/15/1864 (place not stated); * Commanding 10/15/1864 Company A (Estimated day) * Returned 12/15/1864 (place not stated) * Commanding 1/15/1865 Company B; * Returned 3/15/1865 (place not stated). Promotions: * Corpl 8/27/1861 (As of Co. A); * Sergt 1/17/1862 (As of Co. A); * 1st Sergt 3/15/1863 (As of Co. A. Estimated day); * 2nd Lieut 7/25/1864; * Capt 9/19/1864 by Brevet * 1st Lieut 11/6/1864 (As of Co. A); * Capt 3/17/1865 (As of Co. G). Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * 3/17/1865 from company A to company G. Green, 3-cent tax stamp on verso. VG. $225

CWCDV702. No ID. Capt. Richard Brindley. Enlisted on 5/3/1861 as a 2nd Lieutenant. On 5/3/1861 he was commissioned into US Army 2nd Infantry.  He was Killed on 6/27/1862 at Gaines' Mill, VA. Promotions: * 1st Lieut 5/14/1861; * Capt 3/15/1862; * Major 6/27/1862 by Brevet. Other Information:
born in Delaware. VG. $200

CWCDV703. No ID. 1st Sergeant Nathaniel R. Blaney, Co. G. 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery. Residence Marblehead MA; a 26 year-old Cordwainer. Enlisted on 7/5/1861 at Marblehead, MA as a Corporal. On 7/5/1861 he mustered into "G" Co. MA 1st Heavy Artillery. He died of wounds on 7/8/1864 at Washington, DC (Died at Armory Square Hospital). He was listed as: * Wounded 6/16/1864 Petersburg, VA. Promotions: * Sergt; * 1st Sergt; * 2nd Lieut 11/20/1863 (As of Co. F). Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * 11/20/1863 from company G to company F. G. $200

CWCDV704. No ID. Capt. William S. Schuyler, Co. F, 155th NY Infantry, Corcoran's Brigade, Irish Legion. Residence was not listed; 29 years old. Enlisted on 9/10/1862 at New York City, NY as a Captain. On 10/23/1863 he was commissioned into "F" Co. NY 155th Infantry. He died of wounds on 6/20/1864 at Washington, DC. He was listed as: * Wounded 6/3/1864 Cold Harbor, VA (Severe wound in left leg, amputated). 2-cent tax stamp on verso. VG. $250

CWCDV706. H.A. James, Photographic Gallery, NY. Lieut. Charles N. Reynolds. Residence was not listed; 27 years old. Enlisted on 5/27/1861 at New York City, NY as a Private. On 5/27/1861 he mustered into "F" Co. NY 83rd Infantry. He was transferred out on 10/17/1863. On 10/17/1863 he transferred into "1st" Co. Veteran Reserve Corps 2nd Battn. He was Killed on 5/8/1864 at Laurel Hill, VA. Promotions: * 2nd Lieut 1/7/1864 (As of Co. D).
Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * 1/7/1864 from company F to company D. On slip of paper accompanying this cdv is also written "Picture taken Jan. 1864, home on leave at time, signed on reverse. Fair. $175

CWCDV708. J.B. Gardner, NY. Thomas Hooten, 2nd Lieut. Co. D, 7th Conn. Vols. Killed at the Battle of James Island, S.C. June 16th, 1862. Residence Norwalk CT; Enlisted on 8/24/1861 as a 2nd Lieutenant. On 9/5/1861 he was commissioned into "D" Co. CT 7th Infantry.  He also had service in: "E" Co. CT 1st Infantry. G. $225

CWCDV710. E.W. Beckwith, Alexandria, Va. Written on the back of the carte in vintage writing is: J.D. O'Connell, I.N. Graynor? Adjt. 2nd DC Vols., P.E. O'Connor Adjt. 10 Rgt. VRC." In later writing is: " Left--Patrick Edward O'Connor, age 22. Sgt. Co. I 88 NY (Irish Brigade), 2nd Lt. 4-13-62; WIA 6-1-62 (Fair Oaks); disch. 9-16-62. Vet. Res. Corps," and "Right--Adj. 2nd DC Inf. Regt.," and "center" indicating J.D. O'Connell. Info from database on P.E. O'Connor: Residence was not listed; 22 years old. Enlisted on 9/17/1861 at New York City, NY as a Sergeant. On 9/17/1861 he mustered into "I" Co. NY 88th Infantry. He was discharged on 9/16/1862. He was listed as: * Wounded 6/1/1862 Fair Oaks, VA. Promotions: * 2nd Lieut 3/26/1862. Info from database on J.D. O'Connell: Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 5/14/1861 as a Captain. On 5/14/1861 he was commissioned into US Army 14th Infantry
(date and method of discharge not given) (Subsequent service in US Army until his death). Promotions: * Major 6/27/1862 by Brevet (Gaines' Mill, VA); * Lt Colonel 12/13/1862 by Brevet (Fredericksburg, VA); * Colonel 3/13/1865 by Brevet. Other Information: born in Pennsylvania; died 9/16/1867; (Graduate USMA 07/01/1852). G. $225

CWCDV711. Whitehurst Gallery, Washington DC. Truly Yours, J.D. O'Connell. Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 5/14/1861 as a Captain. On 5/14/1861 he was commissioned into US Army 14th Infantry (date and method of discharge not given) (Subsequent service in US Army until his death). Promotions: * Major 6/27/1862 by Brevet (Gaines' Mill, VA); * Lt Colonel 12/13/1862 by Brevet (Fredericksburg, VA); * Colonel 3/13/1865 by Brevet. Other Information: born in Pennsylvania; died 9/16/1867; (Graduate USMA 07/01/1852). G. $150

CWCDV712. A. Lonrel?, Boston. "Major James Toomey, Co. A, 24th Mass. Vols.," written on back. I can't find a record with this data. There is a James Twomey of the 33rd Mass. who died of wounds at Kingston Ga. but no record of a Toomey or Twomey with the 24th Mass. 3-cent tax stamp on verso. Please let me know if you can identify this mystery man. VG. for now, $75

CWCDV714. John A. Heard, Boston. Samuel M. Bowman, Co. A, MA 51 & 57 Inf. Killed in Action, July 24, 1864, Petersburg. From the database: Residence Clinton MA; a 26 year-old Machinist. Enlisted on 9/16/1862 as a Sergeant. On 9/25/1862 he mustered into "A" Co. MA 51st Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 7/27/1863 at Worcester, MA. On 1/4/1864 he was commissioned into "A" Co. MA 57th Infantry. He was Killed on 7/24/1864 at Petersburg, VA (Mortally wounded in the thigh and leg by a confederate mortar shell) He was listed as: * Absent, sick 5/6/1864 Washington, DC; * Returned 5/28/1864 (place not stated). Promotions: * 1st Lieut 12/26/1863 (As of Co. A 57th MA Inf). Other Information: born in Clinton, MA; Buried: Clinton, MA;
(Buried 08/05/64 in Clinton, MA). VG. $225

CWCDV716. J. Oldershaw, Hartford, Conn. John Alexander. Residence Enfield CT; Enlisted on 6/21/1861 as a Private. On 7/22/1861 he mustered into "B" Co. CT 5th Infantry. He was transferred out on 1/11/1864. On 1/11/1864 he transferred into "G" Co. CT 20th Infantry. He was transferred out on 3/26/1864. On 3/26/1864 he transferred into "B" Co. CT 5th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 7/22/1864. G. $125

CWCDV717. C.L. Lochman, Carlisle, Penna. Private Robert M. M'Keehan, Co. D, 187 PA Infantry. Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 1/29/1864 as a Private. On 1/29/1864 he mustered into "D" Co. PA 187th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 8/3/1865 at Harrisburg, PA. (In 1900, lived in Mount Rock, PA.) G-. $125

CWCDV720. M. Sancier, Mobile, Ala. "Your Truly D.G. Horton." On back is "Co. E, 15th U.S.I. Fort Morgan, Ala. G. $150

CWCDV722. Broadbent & Co., Philadelphia. "Affecty Yr. Bro. Wm. McMichael, Maj. AAG." Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 8/15/1861 as a Captain. On 8/15/1861 he was commissioned into US Volunteers Adjutant Genl Dept. He was Mustered Out on 3/20/1866. Promotions: * Capt 8/15/1861 (Captain & Asst Adjutant General); * Major 8/16/1862 (Major & Asst Adjutant General); * Lt Colonel 3/13/1865 by Brevet; * Colonel 3/13/1865 by Brevet. Other Information: born in Pennsylvania; died 4/20/1893. G. $135

CWCDV724. R.A. Lewis, NY. Thomas W. Dee. Residence Massachusetts; Enlisted on 10/18/1861 as a Actg 3 Asst Eng. On 10/18/1861 he was commissioned into US Navy. He was discharged on 6/9/1866. He was listed as: * Resigned 1/4/1863 (place not stated); * Reappointed 6/26/1863 (place not stated). Ships served on in Navy: * USS OHIO; * USS DAFFODIL; * USS MASSACHUSETTS; * South Atlantic Squadron. Other Information: born in Maine. On back of carte is written: "Thomas W. Dee grandfather of Lieut. J. F. Gleason USA 1943, W.M. Gearan, Cathleen Dee Gearan." VG. $135

CWCDV725. No ID. Capt. Lyman Y. Stuart, US Volunteers Commissary Dept. Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 9/10/1862 as a Captain. On  9/10/1862 he was commissioned into US Volunteers Commissary Dept. He was Mustered Out on 6/16/1865. Promotions: * Capt 9/10/1862 (Captain & Commissary); * Major 6/16/1865 by Brevet. Other Information: born in Connecticut. VG. $125

CWCDV726. No ID. Lieut. John H. Purcell. Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 8/3/1860 as a Private. On 8/3/1860 he mustered into US Army Ordnance Dept. He was discharged for promotion on 7/14/1862. (Prior service in US Army from 12/11/1852 until 12/11/1857.) On 7/14/1862 he was commissioned into US Army 1st Infantry (date and method of discharge not given) (Subsequent service until 12/02/1870). Promotions: * Artificer; * Armorer (Master Armorer); * 2nd Lieut 7/14/1862 (As of 1st US Army Infantry); * 1st Lieut 11/26/1864. Other Information: born in Ireland. G. $165

CWCDV727. No ID. "Your Cousin Chas. McLean Knox." Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 11/4/1861 at Albany, NY as a Major. On 11/4/1861 he was commissioned into Field & Staff NY 9th Cavalry. He was discharged on 10/8/1863. VG. $150

CWCDV728. No ID. Charles McLean Knox. Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 11/4/1861 at Albany, NY as a Major. On 11/4/1861 he was commissioned into Field & Staff NY 9th Cavalry. He was discharged on 10/8/1863. Outdoor image measuring 3 1/4" x 2 3/8." VG. $150

CWCDV730. Bryant, Charlestown. "John Collins, 3rd Regt. Oct. 1861." Private John K. Collins. While his signed name gives no initial, later writing at the bottom of the card indicates his middle initial is "K." There is a John K. Collins in the HDS database and here is his information: Residence Deer Isle ME; a 22 year-old Seaman. Enlisted on 11/1/1861 as a Private. On 11/1/1861 he mustered into "Read's" Co. MA 3rd Cavalry. He was discharged for wounds on 3/28/1864 at New Orleans, LA. He was listed as: * Wounded (date and place not stated). Other Information: born in Deer Isle, Maine. Member of GAR Post # 179 (Samuel F. Woods) in Barre, MA; died 6/25/1926. There is also a John S. Collins from the same regiment with similar information in the database. And there is one additional John Collins, no initial who served in the MA 3rd Heavy Artillery. VG. $135

CWCDV731. No ID. Col. John Slocum, 2nd Rhode Island. Residence Providence RI; 36 years old. Enlisted on 4/17/1861 as a Major. On 5/2/1861 he was commissioned into Field & Staff RI 1st Infantry. He was discharged for promotion on 6/4/1861. On 6/5/1861 he was commissioned into Field & Staff RI 2nd Infantry. He was Killed on 7/21/1861 at Bull Run, VA. Promotions: * Colonel 6/5/1861 (As of 2nd RI Inf). Other Information: born 11/1/1824 in Richmond, RI; Buried: Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI; (Served in Mexican War.  Married Abby J. James in 1858). VG. $300

CWCDV734. Bogardus, NY. "Yours Truly William Welch," Co. D, 68th NY Infantry. Residence was not listed; 22 years old. Enlisted on 5/27/1861 at New York City, NY as a Private. On 5/27/1861 he mustered into "A" Co. NY 83rd Infantry. He was discharged for promotion on 1/14/1863. On 1/14/1863 he was commissioned into NY 68th Infantry (date and method of discharge not given). Promotions: * Corpl 10/15/1862; * 2nd Lieut 1/14/1863. G. $150

CWCDV735. Jas. M. Dow, Photographist, Ogdensburgh. "To Jane from Loren." Loren Wellington Fuller, 60 NY Vols. Residence was not listed; 21 years old. Enlisted on 9/12/1861 at Ogdensburgh, NY as a Sergeant. On 10/30/1861 he mustered into "D" Co. NY 60th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 7/17/1865 at Alexandria, VA. Promotions: * 1st Sergt 2/16/1863; * 2nd Lieut 3/15/1863 (Not Mustered); * 1st Lieut 9/20/1863; * Adjutant 2/1/1864; * Capt 1/20/1865 (As of Co. C). Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * 3/27/1865 from company D to company C. VG. $150

CWCDV738. Claflin's Photographic Gallery, Worcester, Mass. "Willard Corney, 117th V.R.C., Portsmouth Grove, R.I." Residence Woonsocket RI;  Enlisted on 8/1/1862 as a Private. On 8/1/1862 he mustered into "H" Co. RI 1st Cavalry. He was transferred out on 3/12/1864. On 3/12/1864 he transferred into "117th" Co. Veteran Reserve Corps 2nd Battn. He was Mustered Out on 8/15/1865. He was listed as: * POW 6/18/1863 Middleburg, VA (Paroled);
* POW 10/12/1863 Sulphur Springs, VA (Paroled); * Absent sick 12/15/1863 U.S. General Hospital (Estimated day, until transfer to RC). VG. $175

CWCDV739. J. Jones, Rendezvous of Distribution, Va. "W. R. McClellan, Shurley Village, Mass." William R. McClellan. Residence was not listed; a 21 year-old Operative. Enlisted on 8/17/1864 as a Private. On 8/17/1864 he mustered into "I" Co. MA 4th Heavy Artillery. He was Mustered Out on 6/17/1865 at Washington, DC. 3-cent tax stamp on verso. Unusual "Rendezvous of Distribution" location backmark. VG. $165

CWCDV740. Haines & Wickes, Albany, NY. "Yours Truly James Brennan US Vols." Residence was not listed; an 18 year-old Clerk. Enlisted on 1/4/1864 at Troy, NY as a Private. On 1/14/1864 he mustered into "K" Co. NY 7th Heavy Artillery. He was transferred out on 4/17/1865. On 4/17/1865 he transferred into "138th" Co. Veteran Reserve Corps 2nd Battn. He was Mustered Out on 8/9/1865 at Albany, NY. (Subsequent service in US Army until his death). He was listed as: * Wounded 6/3/1864 Cold Harbor, VA (Wounded in left hand and forehead). Other Information: born in England; died 7/15/1888. VG. $165

CWCDV741. Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Wash DC. Frank McDonald Lt. Co. B, 24 NY Cavalry. Residence was not listed; 22 years old. Enlisted on 12/24/1863 at Auburn, NY as a Sergeant. On 1/7/1864 he mustered into "B" Co. NY 24th Cavalry. He was transferred out on 6/17/1865. On 6/17/1865 he transferred into "B" Co. NY 1st Prov'l Cavalry. He was Mustered Out on 7/19/1865 at Cloud's Mills, VA. Promotions: * Qtr Master Serg 7/1/1864 (Estimated date); * 1st Sergt 11/26/1864; * 2nd Lieut 5/11/1865; * 1st Lieut 6/17/1865 (Not Mustered). Intra Regimental Company Transfers:
* from company B to company C (As of 24th NY Cav. May have been transferred). G. $150

CWCDV742. S. Moses & Son, New Orleans. "To my....Thomas H. Nolan, Co. D, 5th U.S.V. Port Hudson, La. March 4th, 1864." Residence New Bedford MA; a 19 year-old Clerk. Enlisted on 8/21/1862 at New Bedford, MA as a Private. On 8/31/1862 he mustered into "A" Co. MA 3rd Cavalry.
He was discharged for promotion on 7/21/1863. On 7/21/1863 he was commissioned into US CT 82nd Infantry. He Resigned on 6/15/1865. Promotions: * Corpl; * 1st Lieut 7/21/1863 (As of 82nd UC Inf). Other Information: born in Fairhaven, MA; Member of GAR Post # 1 (William Logan Rodman) in New Bedford, MA; died 4/20/1922. After the War he lived in New Bedford, MA. VG. $175

CWCDV743. W. Hunt, New Haven, Conn. 1st Lieut Robert Bradley, Co. H, 15th Conn. Vols. Regimental History has him in Co. D as 2nd Lieut. promoted to Capt. of Co. H 10-25-63. He is in the Soldiers and Sailors system, not in HDS. VG. $175

CWCDV744. Pine & Bell, Troy, NY. "Sergt. Finney." I believe this is John Finney, Co. H, NY 4oth Infantry. Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 7/27/1864 as a Corporal. On 7/27/1864 he transferred into "H" Co. NY 40th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 6/27/1865 at Washington, DC. Promotions:
* Private (Reduced to ranks); * Corpl 8/20/1864; * Sergt 10/11/1864. He also had service in: NY 74th Infantry. G. $125

CWCDV746. A.D. Lytle, Baton Rouge, La. "J.P. Kelly A.A. Paymaster U.S.S. Lafayette." James P. Kelly, Acting Assistant Paymaster. Info on back of card indicates that Kelly was born in PA, was a citizen of Illinois, mustered out Dec. 20, 1865. VG. $250

CWCDV747. No ID. "Truly Yours, James. A. Riley." On back is written "James A. Riley, 3rd R.I. Cavalry." Since there are other James A. Rileys in the HDS database, and without knowing where the attribution comes from, I can't be sure that this is a RI soldier. 3-cent tax stamp on verso. VG. $125

CWCDV748. A.R. Butts, Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Mo. "Captain John Mitchell." There is a slip of paper with this CDV with "Jno K. (I think) Mitchell Comdg 2 Rt. Sqdn." (I think) on it. There is a story here but I haven't been able to pin it down as of yet. G. $150

CWCDV749. R.S. De Lamater, Hartford, Ct. "Ira Graham" written on verso. 3-cent tax stamp on verso. VG. $125

CWCDV750. Knowlton's Photograph Gallery, Woburn. "Charles Hastings, 12th Mass.," written on verso. Also "From collection of Cyrus Dollin 1862-1942."  Residence Weymouth MA; a 30 year-old Shoe Stitcher. Enlisted on 6/26/1861 as a 1st Lieutenant. On 6/26/1861 he was commissioned into "H" Co. MA 12th Infantry. He was discharged on 3/12/1865 (Discharged per SO # 121). He was listed as: * POW 5/24/1864 North Anna River, VA (Confined at Macon, GA & Columbia, SC); * Released 3/1/1865 Wilmington, NC. Promotions: * Capt 8/10/1862. Other Information: born 1/19/1831; Member of GAR Post # 58 (Reynolds) in Weymouth, MA. Held GAR Offices: * Post Commander # 58; died 3/26/1941. After the War he lived in South Weymouth, MA. VG. $225

CWCDV752. McGregor's Photograph Gallery, NY. "John Longhran," on front; "83rd N.Y. Vol.," on back. Residence was not listed; 18 years old. Enlisted on 3/20/1862 at New York City, NY as a Private. On 3/20/1862 he mustered into "I" Co. NY 83rd Infantry. He was discharged for disability on 2/6/1863 at Convalescent Camp, VA. VG. $150

CWCDV753. Churchill & Denison, Albany, NY. "Mr. John McMaster 1864," and "9th N.Y. H.A.," written on back. Residence was not listed; 29 years old.
Enlisted on 8/2/1862 at Ira, NY as a 1st Sergeant. On 8/23/1862 he mustered into "K" Co. NY 9th Heavy Artillery. He was discharged for disability on 3/25/1865. Promotions: * 1st Lieut 3/19/1864 (As of Co. B). Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * 3/19/1864 from company K to company B. VG. $165

CWCDV754. No ID. "John McPhinn" written on top, "John McPhinn, US Cav." written on back. I can't locate any soldier with this name. Two, one-cent tax stamps on verso. G. $95

CWCDV755. Whitehurst Gallery, Wasington, DC. "Harmon McCormick," written on front. This is Harmon McCormack in HDS, 16th IN Light Artillery. Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 11/4/1863 as a Private. On 11/4/1863 he mustered into IN 16th Light Artillery. He was Mustered Out on 7/5/1865 at Indianapolis, IN. VG. $175

CWCDV756. No ID. Capt. James McCoy. This is James W. McCoy, Co. B, 22 Reg't N.Y. Vols. Residence was not listed; 26 years old. Enlisted on 5/10/1861 at Fort Edward, NY as a 2nd Lieutenant. On 6/6/1861 he was commissioned into "B" Co. NY 22nd Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 6/19/1863 at Albany, NY. Promotions: * Capt 8/30/1862. He also had service in: "K" Co. NY 16th Heavy Artillery  (Subsequent service). I have been informed by a collector (thanks SH) that Capt. McCoy was wounded at Antietam. When the battle appeared that it would be renewed the next day he reported present for duty.  This information was taken from an article in the New York Times. VG. $250

CWCDV757. F. Forshew, Hudson, NY. "Frank E. O'Connor," written on back. I can't locate a soldier with this name. 2-cent, cancelled ("f.f.") tax stamp on verso. VG. $95

CWCDV758. New Orleans Photographic Co., A.A. Turner, Photo. "F.N. Finney, Captain, 7th Vt. Vetra? Vols," on back. Frank N. Finney. Residence Brandon VT; Enlisted on 11/16/1861 as a Sergeant. On 2/12/1862 he mustered into "B" Co. VT 7th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 4/2/1866. Promotions: * 2nd Lieut 9/24/1862 (As of Co. G); * 1st Lieut 3/1/1863 (As of Co. D); * Capt 2/28/1865 (As of Co. H). Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * 10/24/1862 from company B to company G; * 3/26/1863 from company G to company D; * 4/5/1865 from company G to company H. 2-cent tax stamp on verso. VG. $250

CWCDV759. Rehn & Sons, Philadelphia. "James Kilkelly, Co. A, 2nd D.C. Vols.," written on back. Residence was not listed; Enlisted as a Private (date unknown). VG. $150

CWCDV760. No ID. "Truly yours, Wm. Hoelcke, US Army," written on back. Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 8/19/1861 as a Captain. On 8/19/1861 he was commissioned into US Volunteers Aide-De-Camp. He was Mustered Out on 3/12/1866. On 4/1/1866 he was commissioned into US Volunteers 5th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 11/3/1866. (Subsequent service in US Army from 07/28/1866 until 9/1/1870.) Promotions: * Capt 8/19/1861 (Captain & Additional Aide-de-Camp); * Capt 4/1/1866 (As of 5th US Volunteers Infantry). Other Information: born in Germany; died 7/21/1899. VG. $200

CWCDV761. O.B. Buel, Photographic Artist, Gt. Barrington, Mass. "John Alexander from Enfield. 5th Conn. Vol." Residence Enfield CT; Enlisted on 6/21/1861 as a Private. On 7/22/1861 he mustered into "B" Co. CT 5th Infantry. He was transferred out on 1/11/1864. On 1/11/1864 he transferred into "G" Co. CT 20th Infantry. He was transferred out on 3/26/1864. On 3/26/1864 he transferred into "B" Co. CT 5th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 7/22/1864. VG. $175

CWCDV762. Moulthrop & Williams, New Haven, Ct. Dr. S.C. McCormick. Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 6/11/1863 as a Asst Surgeon. On 6/11/1863 he mustered into Field & Staff PA 37th Infantry (8th PA Reserves). He was Mustered Out on 5/24/1864 at Pittsburgh, PA. VG. $200

CWCDV763. No ID. On back is written "George Keating, 174th NY, ID Roger Hunt, Henry Deeks." George W. Keating. Residence was not listed; Enlisted as a Major (date unknown). On 2/17/1864 he was commissioned into Field & Staff NY 162nd Infantry. He was discharged for disability on 6/9/1864. He also had service in: Field & Staff NY 174th Infantry. G. $175

CWCDV764. No ID. "Yours Respectfully S.P. Dempsey," written on front. There are 4 'S. Dempseys' without middle initial and none with a 'P' middle initial in HDS, so no way to tell which is our man. G. $125

CWCDV765. Rockwood, NY. "Capt. E.C. Boynton, ...? July 24th-For Dr. Webster," written on back. Edward Carlisle Boynton, US Army 11th Infantry.  Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 9/23/1861 as a Captain. On 9/23/1861 he was commissioned into US Army 11th Infantry (date and method of discharge not given). (Prior service in US Army 1846-1856 and subsequent to 12/1/1872). Promotions: * Major 3/13/1865 by Brevet. Other Information:
born in Vermont; died 3/13/1893. (Graduate USMA 07/1/1846). G. $200

CWCDV766. J.H. Abbott, Albany, NY. "Lt. Thomas Dempsey, 44th NY Inf.," written on back. Residence was not listed; 41 years old. Enlisted on 8/30/1862 at North Greenbush, NY as a Sergeant. On 9/25/1862 he mustered into "E" Co. NY 44th Infantry. He was discharged on 6/29/1864. He was listed as: * Accidentally Wounded 8/19/1863 (place not stated). Promotions: * 2nd Lieut 6/23/1863 (Not Mustered); * Sergt 10/28/1863; * 1st Lieut 12/26/1863 (As of Co. I). Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * 12/26/1863 from company I to company E. 2-cent tax stamp on verso. VG. $175

CWCDV767. No ID. "A. Lyon, Hospital Steward, on back. Abram Lyon. Residence was not listed; Enlisted as a Hospl Steward (date unknown). He also had service in: Field & Staff US CT 81st Infantry. G. $125

CWCDV768. C.L. Lochman, Carlisle, Pa. "Lt. McDonald, 1st Cav.," written on back. John McDonald. Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 8/18/1857 as a Private. On 8/18/1857 he mustered into "K" Co. US Army 1st Cavalry. He was Retired on 7/1/1868. Promotions: * Corpl; * Sergt; * 1st Sergt; * 2nd Lieut 7/17/1862; * 1st Lieut 12/29/1863; * Capt 7/1/1868. Other Information: born in Ireland. VG. $200

CWCDV769. No ID. "Affectionately Yours, Capt. John Harty," written on front. John D. Harty. Residence Oakland MI; 27 years old. Enlisted on 6/19/1861 at Detroit, MI as a Captain. On 8/22/1861 he mustered into "F" Co. MI 7th Infantry. He Resigned on 5/5/1862. G. $200

CWCDV770. R.H. Dewey, Photographic Artist, Pittsfield, Mass. "Charles T. Plunkett, Maj. 49th Mass.," written on back. Residence Pittsfield MA; a 22 year-old Manufacturer. Enlisted on 9/8/1862 as a Captain. On 9/19/1862 he was commissioned into "C" Co. MA 49th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 9/1/1863 at Pittsfield, MA. Promotions: * Major 11/10/1862. Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * 11/10/1862 from company C to Field & Staff. VG. $225

CWCDV771. C.H. Ravell, Wolcott, NY. 1st Lieut. William Hill. G. $100

CWCDV773. No ID. Major Henry G. Healy, Co. F. NY 65th Infantry. Residence was not listed; 28 years old. Enlisted on 6/17/1861 at New York City, NY as a Captain. On 7/17/1861 he was commissioned into "F" Co. NY 65th Infantry. He was discharged for disability on 11/17/1863. He was listed as:
* Wounded 5/3/1863 Hazel Run, VA. Promotions: * Major 7/20/1862; * Lt Colonel 8/4/1863. Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * 7/20/1862 from company F to Field & Staff. Fair. $150

CWCDV774. No ID. Major O.D. Barrett, 11th NY Cavalry, according to legend at bottom of card. I can't find anything on a soldier with this name. Fair. $75

CWCDV775. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. 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. VG. $125

CWCDV776. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Ambrose E. Burnside, major-general, born in Liberty, Ind. May 23, 1824, fourth son of Edgehill and Pamelia (Brown) Burnside. He was descended from Robert Burnside, a Scotchman who had fled his native country after the final defeat of the "Young Pretender", whose cause he had espoused. During the Revolutionary war the Burnside family took different sides, and James Burnside grandfather of Ambrose, remained a loyalist during the struggle. He was forced to flee to the island of Jamaica, but returned in 1786 and died in South Carolina. His widow, after freeing her slaves, emigrated to Indiana, and her third son, Edgehill, settled in Liberty, a town which was just being built. Here he married and reared a family of nine children. Ambrose the fourth child, was sent to school until he reached the age of seventeen, obtaining a better education than was generally to be had in country schools of the time, and then, his father being too poor to give him professional training, was apprenticed to a tailor.
Through conversations with soldiers who had fought in the war of 1812 he became interested in military life, and read all the books which he could obtain which related to military affairs. While engaged in reading one of these books in his shop in Liberty, so goes the tradition, one of the patrons, Caleb B. Smith, then a congressman came into the shop, and asked the boy about his ambitions. He became interested in young Burnside and eventually succeeded in procuring for him an appointment to West Point. Upon his graduation with the class of 1847, Lieut. Burnside was ordered to the City of Mexico, where he remained on garrison duty until the return of the army, when he served at Fort Adams, at Las Vegas, where he was wounded, and at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.  In 1853 he resigned his commission as 1st lieutenant of the 3rd artillery to devote his attention to the manufacture of a breech-loading rifle which he had invented. The rifle which had been submitted in competition with some eighteen others, had received the approval of a board of commissioners appointed by
Congress, and Burnside expected an order from the government. Upon investigating, however, he was told that he would have to pay $5,000 to a professional lobbyist before the government would order any of his guns, and, as he refused indignantly to pay a sum for such a purpose, he was forced to make an assignment, and, with fifteen dollars in his pocket returned west to retrieve his fortunes. Eventually he succeeded, by dint of strictest economy, in paying off all the indebtedness incurred in the disastrous venture. After his assignment he secured a position as cashier of the land department of the Illinois Central railroad, of which his former classmate, George B. McClellan, was then vice-president, and, a year later, became treasurer of the road. Just before the outbreak of the Civil War he made a business trip to New Orleans, and, learning the state of affairs in the South, arranged his affairs, upon his return to the North so as to be ready to start at a moment's warning for the war. He was appointed in the spring of 1861, by Gov. Sprague of Rhode Island, colonel of the 1st R. I. volunteers, and led his regiment to Washington by way of Annapolis, being one of the first to assist in the defense of the city. In the first battle of Bull Run he commanded a brigade at the beginning of the battle and succeeded to the command of Gen. Hunter's division after that officer was wounded, winning by his services in that engagement many public testimonials and promotion to the rank of brigadier-general. Gen. Burnside won his greatest popularity, however by an expedition which he successfully led against North Carolina in the winter of 1861-62. Starting from Hampton Roads, Jan. 12, 1862, the fleet arrived at Pamlico sound after a tempestuous voyage, on Jan. 25, and on Feb. 8, after several sharp engagements, Roanoke island was captured. This gave control of Pamlico and Albemarle sounds to the northern forces, and soon, by means of a series of brilliant maneuvers, Burnside captured New Berne, Beaufort, and Fort Macon besides a number of less important points of vantage to the north and on his return was hailed as the most uniformly successful of Union generals, being appointed by President Lincoln major-general of volunteers. Gen. Burnside was next attached to the Army of the Potomac, and, with his famous 9th corps, assisted Gen. McClellan in withdrawing from the Peninsula. He next distinguished himself by dislodging the Confederates from a strong position which they held in the passes at South mountain. Lee retreated to Antietam creek, threw up entrenchments there, and waited battle. When the battle was fought, three days later, Burnside's division which held the stone bridge across the creek in spite of fearful loss, was all that saved the Union army from complete defeat. Gen. Burnside assumed command of the Army of the Potomac when McClellan was retired, in Nov., 1862, and retained it until superseded, on Jan. 26, 1863, by Gen. Hooker, on account of the disastrous result of the battle of Fredericksburg, blame for which was placed on Burnside, and generously assumed by him. In this battle, which was fought against the advice of Gen. Burnside, the Union army was forced to attack the Confederates at a great disadvantage, the latter holding a line of hills, and being strongly entrenched. Attempts to carry the place by assault failed, and the army was forced to
withdraw with a loss of 12,000 men. After being relieved of his command Burnside resigned, but the president refused to accept his resignation, and placed him in command of the Department of the Ohio, where he rendered conspicuous service by ridding the country of guerrillas, enforcing stringent measures against Southern sympathizers on both sides of the river, and affording protection to loyalists. In Aug., 1863, he captured Cumberland gap with a force of 18,000 men, then moved on to Knoxville and held that place against siege and assault by Longstreet against terrible odds, until relieved at the end of a month by Sherman. He was again assigned to command of his old 9th corps, and in the closing operations of the war under Grant, in the Wilderness, Cold Harbor and Petersburg campaigns took a conspicuous part. The losses of his troops in the explosion of the Petersburg mine were heavy, and a court martial, called at the suggestion of Gen. Meade, judged him "answerable for want of success." This decision was afterwards revoked, however, by a congressional commission
which investigated the matter. At the close of the war Gen. Burnside resigned his commission and retired to private life with a reputation as a patriotic, brave and able officer. He was elected governor of Rhode Island in 1866, was twice re-elected, but refused a fourth nomination and engaged again in railroad construction and management. He was in Paris at the time of the Franco-Prussian war, and acted as envoy, and, while his mission of peace was not successful, he gained the respect and admiration of both parties. He was elected to the United States Senate from Rhode Island in 1875, and re-elected in 1880. He gained prominence as a senator, proving himself as capable a statesman as he had been a soldier. Gen. Burnside died in Bristol, R. I., Sept. 3, 1881. VG. $125

CWCDV777. 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. VG. $100

CWCDV778. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by 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. VG. $225

CWCDV779. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Dupont (1803-1865). VG. $200

CWCDV780. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. General John Adams Dix (1798-1879). VG. $150

CWCDV782. E&HT Anthony, NY. Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893). VG. $150

CWCDV783. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Major General Anderson. G. $100

CWCDV784. 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. VG. $275

CWCDV785. Rockwood, NY. General George Stoneman (1822-1894). California Governor '83-'87. G. $200

CWCDV786. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E. Anthony, NY. James Shields (May 10, 1810 – June 1, 1879), American politician and United States Army officer who was born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland. Shields, a Democrat, is the only person in United States history to serve as a U.S. Senator for three different states. Shields was a senator from Illinois 1849 to 1855, in the 31st, 32nd, and 33rd congresses, from Minnesota from May 11, 1858 to March 4, 1859, in the 35th congress, and from Missouri from January 27, 1879 to March 4, 1879, in the 45th congress. Shields was the nephew of another James Shields, also born in Ireland, who was a Congressman from Ohio. The younger Shields immigrated to the United States around 1826 and settled in Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Illinois where he studied and later practiced law. He served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, beginning to serve in 1836, and then as an Illinois Supreme Court justice and in 1839 as the state auditor. (He was elected when not yet a citizen; Illinois then required only that a legislator have been resident in the state for six months.) Shields nearly fought a duel with Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1842. Lincoln had published an inflammatory letter in a Springfield, Illinois, newspaper, the Sagamon Journal that poked fun at Shields, the State Auditor. Lincoln's future wife and her close friend, continued writing letters about Shields without his knowledge. Taking offense to the articles, Shields demanded "satisfaction" and the incident escalated to the two parties meeting on a Missouri island called Sunflower Island, near Alton, Illinois to participate in a duel. Lincoln took responsibility for the articles and accepted the duel. Just prior to engaging in combat, Lincoln made it a point to demonstrate his advantage by easily cutting a branch just above Shields' head, the two participants' seconds intervened and were able to convince the two men to cease hostilities, on the grounds that Lincoln had not written the letters. In 1846, Shields was selected as a brigadier general of volunteers to fight in the Mexican-American War. He served under Zachary Taylor along the Rio Grande River. He commanded the 3rd Brigade, Volunteer Division, at the battles of Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo, where he was wounded. He returned to fight at the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, his brigade now part of the 4th Division. He was again wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec. Following the war, on August 14, 1848, he was nominated by President Polk, and confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as governor of Oregon Territory that was created that same day. However, he declined the position and Joseph Lane was nominated and became the first governor of the new territory. He resigned to run for the Senate from Illinois. His election was voided by the Senate on the grounds that he had not been a United States citizen for the nine years required by the United States Constitution; having been naturalized October 21, 1840. He returned to Illinois and campaigned for re-election, and won the special election to replace himself, and was then seated. In 1855, he was defeated for re-election, so he moved to Minnesota. He was elected as one of the two first Senators from that state, but his term was only from 1858 to 1859, and he was again not re-elected. He was the editor of the 1854 book, A History of Illinois, from its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847. Shields then moved to California and served as a brigadier general of volunteers from that state during the American Civil War. He commanded the 2nd Division of the V Corps, Army of the Potomac (subsequently part of the Army of the Shenandoah), during the Valley Campaign of 1862. He was wounded at the Battle of Kernstown on March 22, 1862, but his troops inflicted the only tactical defeat of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson during the campaign (or the war). The day after Kernstown, he was promoted to major general, but the promotion was withdrawn, reconsidered, and then finally rejected. His overall performance in the rest of the Valley Campaign was poor enough that he resigned his commission, and his departure was not resisted by the War Department. In 1863 he moved to Mexico and operated mines, and then to Wisconsin, but in 1866 moved to Missouri, where he served as member of the Missouri State House of Representatives, and as railroad commissioner. In 1879, he was elected to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Lewis V. Bogy. He served only three months and declined to run for re-election. Shields died in Ottumwa, Iowa. He is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Carrollton, Missouri. VG. $275

CWCDV787. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. James Shields (May 10, 1810 – June 1, 1879), American politician and United States Army officer who was born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland. Shields, a Democrat, is the only person in United States history to serve as a U.S. Senator for three different states. Shields was a senator from Illinois 1849 to 1855, in the 31st, 32nd, and 33rd congresses, from Minnesota from May 11, 1858 to March 4, 1859, in the 35th congress, and from Missouri from January 27, 1879 to March 4, 1879, in the 45th congress. Shields was the nephew of another James Shields, also born in Ireland, who was a Congressman from Ohio. The younger Shields immigrated to the United States around 1826 and settled in Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Illinois where he studied and later practiced law. He served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, beginning to serve in 1836, and then as an Illinois Supreme Court justice and in 1839 as the state auditor. (He was elected when not yet a citizen; Illinois then required only that a legislator have been resident in the state for six months.) Shields nearly fought a duel with Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1842. Lincoln had published an inflammatory letter in a Springfield, Illinois, newspaper, the Sagamon Journal that poked fun at Shields, the State Auditor. Lincoln's future wife and her close friend, continued writing letters about Shields without his knowledge. Taking offense to the articles, Shields demanded "satisfaction" and the incident escalated to the two parties meeting on a Missouri island called Sunflower Island, near Alton, Illinois to participate in a duel. Lincoln took responsibility for the articles and accepted the duel. Just prior to engaging in combat, Lincoln made it a point to demonstrate his advantage by easily cutting a branch just above Shields' head, the two participants' seconds intervened and were able to convince the two men to cease hostilities, on the grounds that Lincoln had not written the letters. In 1846, Shields was selected as a brigadier general of volunteers to fight in the Mexican-American War. He served under Zachary Taylor along the Rio Grande River. He commanded the 3rd Brigade, Volunteer Division, at the battles of Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo, where he was wounded. He returned to fight at the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, his brigade now part of the 4th Division. He was again wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec. Following the war, on August 14, 1848, he was nominated by President Polk, and confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as governor of Oregon Territory that was created that same day. However, he declined the position and Joseph Lane was nominated and became the first governor of the new territory. He resigned to run for the Senate from Illinois. His election was voided by the Senate on the grounds that he had not been a United States citizen for the nine years required by the United States Constitution; having been naturalized October 21, 1840. He returned to Illinois and campaigned for re-election, and won the special election to replace himself, and was then seated. In 1855, he was defeated for re-election, so he moved to Minnesota. He was elected as one of the two first Senators from that state, but his term was only from 1858 to 1859, and he was again not re-elected. He was the editor of the 1854 book, A History of Illinois, from its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847. Shields then moved to California and served as a brigadier general of volunteers from that state during the American Civil War. He commanded the 2nd Division of the V Corps, Army of the Potomac (subsequently part of the Army of the Shenandoah), during the Valley Campaign of 1862. He was wounded at the Battle of Kernstown on March 22, 1862, but his troops inflicted the only tactical defeat of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson during the campaign (or the war). The day after Kernstown, he was promoted to major general, but the promotion was withdrawn, reconsidered, and then finally rejected. His overall performance in the rest of the Valley Campaign was poor enough that he resigned his commission, and his departure was not resisted by the War Department. In 1863 he moved to Mexico and operated mines, and then to Wisconsin, but in 1866 moved to Missouri, where he served as member of the Missouri State House of Representatives, and as railroad commissioner. In 1879, he was elected to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Lewis V. Bogy. He served only three months and declined to run for re-election. Shields died in Ottumwa, Iowa. He is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Carrollton, Missouri. G. $250

CWCDV790. E&HT Anthony, NY. 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. 2-cent, orange tax stamp on verso. G. $150

CWCDV791. Brady's National Photographic Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. 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. Corners clipped o/w G+. $200

CWCDV792. Henszey & Co, Philadelphia. John W. Geary, brigadier-general, was born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Pa., Dec. 30, 1819. He entered Jefferson college but was compelled to leave before graduation on account of his father's sudden death and loss of property, then taught school and  was a civil engineer at the time of the outbreak of the Mexican war. He organized the "American Highlanders," and as lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd Penn. volunteer infantry joined Gen. Scott at Vera Cruz and commanded the regiment at Chapultepec where he was twice wounded, and at Belen Gate the same day. His service won the approbation of the commanding general and he was made the first commander of the city and promoted colonel of his regiment. At the close of the war he went to California, was made first postmaster of San Francisco, and was authorized by President Polk to establish the postal service throughout California. He was elected by the people alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, and also judge of the first instance. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention, where he was instrumental in securing the organization of California as a free state, and upon his return to Pennsylvania he retired for several years from public life to his farm in Westmoreland county. He was appointed by President Pierce governor of Kansas in 1856, but resigned the next year upon failing to secure the state a free state constitution. Upon the outbreak of the Civil war he organized, in April, 1861, a regiment of 1,500 men and reported for duty to Gen. Banks at Harper's Ferry, Va. He commanded in several engagements, distinguished himself and was wounded at Bolivar Heights, captured Leesburg, Va., March 8, 1862, and was made brigadier-general April 25. He was twice wounded at the battle of Cedar mountain, and on recovery was placed in command of the 2nd division of the 12th army corps, which he led in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. He was subsequently transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, in Gen. Hooker's command, and distinguished himself at the battles of Wauhatchie and Lookout mountain. In Sherman's march to the sea he commanded the 2nd division of the 20th army corps, was the first to enter Savannah after its evacuation, Dec. 22, 1864, and for his conduct at the capture of Fort Jackson and gallantry at Savannah, he was appointed military governor of the city. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, Jan. 12, 1865, "for fitness to command and promptness to execute." Upon returning to Pennsylvania in 1866, Gen. Geary was elected governor, and in 1869 he was re-elected. His administration was eminently successful, and, after his death, which occurred eighteen days after the expiration of his second term, the legislature erected a monument to his memory. Gen. Geary died in Hamburg, Pa., Feb. 8, 1873. Corners clipped o/w VG. $225

CWCDV793. C.D. Fredricks & Co., NY. Commander David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870). VG. $200

CWCDV795. Photographic negative by Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Published by E&HT Anthony, NY. Cluseret was born in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine. He was an officer in the garde mobile during the revolution of 1848. He took part in several expeditions in Algeria, served in the Crimean War, joined Giuseppe Garibaldi's volunteers in 1860, and in 1861 resigned his commission to take part in the Civil War in America. He served under Fremont and McClellan, and rose to the rank of brigadier general. Then, joining a band of Irish adventurers, he went secretly to Ireland, and participated in the Fenian insurrection (1866–67). He escaped arrest on the collapse of the movement, but was condemned to death in his absence. He arrived in London just after the Reform League's Hyde Park demonstration in 1867. He met a dozen members of the Reform League, including John Bedford Leno, in a private room of the "White Horse" in Rathbone Place. He proposed that they create civil war in England and offered the service of two thousand sworn members of the Fenian body, and that he would act as their leader. John Bedford Leno was the first to reply and denounced the proposal, stating that it would surely lead to their "discomfiture and transportation", and added that the government would surely hear of the plot. During subsequent speeches Leno noticed that only a matchboard partition divided the room they occupied with another adjoining room, and that voices could be heard the other side. Leno declared his intention to leave at once; the others agreed and the room was soon cleared. The next day the meeting was fully reported in The Times, although Leno's speech had been attributed to George Odgers, who had in fact been the only person to support Cluserat's proposal. John Bedford Leno was fully satisfied with the success the Reform League had met and, being opposed to unnecessary violence, bitterly opposed the interference of Cluseret, as did most of the other members of the Reform League. Cluseret's "call to arms" was rejected and he left England for Paris to start his War of the Commune. On his return to France he proclaimed himself a Socialist, opposed militarism, and became a member of the Association Internationale des travailleurs, a cosmopolitan Socialist organization, known as the "Internationale." On the proclamation of the Third Republic in 1871 he set to work to organize the social revolution, first at Lyon and afterwards at Marseilles. His energy, his oratorical gifts, and his military experience gave him great influence among the working classes. On the news of the Communard rising of the March 18, 1871 he hastened to Paris, and on the April 16 was elected a member of the commune. Disagreements with the other leaders of the Commune led to his arrest on May 1, on a false charge of betraying the cause. On May 24 the occupation of Paris by the Versailles troops restored him to liberty, and he succeeded in escaping from France. He did not return to the country till 1884. In 1888 and 1889 he was returned as a deputy to the chamber by Toulon. He died in 1900. Cluseret published his Mémoires (of the Commune) at Paris in 1887-1888. Trimmed at top. G. $200

CWCDV797. C.D. Fredricks & Co., NY. C.G. Halpin, 69th NY Militia. Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 4/20/1861 at New York City, NY as a 2nd Lieutenant. On 4/20/1861 he was commissioned into Unassigned NY 69th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 8/3/1861 at New York, NY.  (Aide-de-Camp to Colonel Hunter.) On back of CDV is written in addition, Major AAG staff of Maj. Genl. John A. Dix; Lt. Col. AAG staff of Maj. Genl. David Hunter. VG. $200

CWCDV798. E. Anthony, NY. General Alexander McDougall McCook (1831-1903). Led 1st OH Regiment at Bull Run. VG. $125

CWCDV800. C.D. Fredricks, NY. 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 the 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 Chili, 1865-68, an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1880, and was appointed minister to Chili again in 1881. He died in Santiago, Chili, Dec. 4, 1881, and his remains were afterward brought to the United States and buried at West Point N.Y. Trimmed at top o/w VG. $125

CWCDV801. C.D. Fredricks, NY. 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 the 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 Chili, 1865-68, an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1880, and was appointed minister to Chili again in 1881. He died in Santiago, Chili, Dec. 4, 1881, and his remains were afterward brought to the United States and buried at West Point N.Y. VG. $150

CWCDV802. Richards' Photograph and Fine Art Gallery, Philadelphia. 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. $125

CWCDV803. C.D. Fredricks & Co., NY. General George McClellan. VG. $65

CWCDV804. F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia. Maj. Gen. Geo. B. McClellan and Lady. 1863 copyright line. VG. $150

CWCDV805. C.D. Fredricks & Co., NY. Maj. Gen. Geo. B. McClellan, with binoculars. Trimmed at bottom. 2-cent tax stamp on verso. G. $150

CWCDV806. E. Anthony. 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. Same as CWCDV400 above but this carte is not trimmed at bottom. G+. $275

CWCDV807. E&HT Anthony. 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. Trimmed at top and top corners clipped. G. $250

CWCDV809. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. James A. Mulligan (1829–1864), colonel of the 23rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment. On February 20, 1865, the United States Senate confirmed the posthumous award to Colonel Mulligan of the rank of brevet brigadier general of U.S. Volunteers to rank from July 23, 1864, the day before he was mortally wounded at the Second Battle of Kernstown, near Winchester, Virginia. He commanded the Federal forces at the First Battle of Lexington in Missouri, and later distinguished himself in other engagements in the Eastern theater prior to his death in battle. Trimmed at bottom. G. $225

CWCDV810. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. James A. Mulligan (1829–1864), colonel of the 23rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment. On February 20, 1865, the United States Senate confirmed the posthumous award to Colonel Mulligan of the rank of brevet brigadier general of U.S. Volunteers to rank from July 23, 1864, the day before he was mortally wounded at the Second Battle of Kernstown, near Winchester, Virginia. He commanded the Federal forces at the First Battle of Lexington in Missouri, and later distinguished himself in other engagements in the Eastern theater prior to his death in battle. Trimmed at top and sides. G-. $200

CWCDV813. No ID. On back is written "John Mahoney" but he sure looks like John O'Mahoney to me. See previous item. VG. $200

CWCDV814. Autographed CDV by Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony of Quincy Adams Gillmore (February 25, 1825 – April 11, 1888), civil engineer, author, and a general in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was noted for his actions in the Union victory at Fort Pulaski, where his modern rifled artillery readily pounded the fort's exterior stone walls, an action that essentially rendered stone fortifications obsolete. He earned an international reputation as an organizer of siege operations and helped revolutionize the use of naval gunnery. The CDV is signed on the back and dated Dec. 1863. The 3 on the year has an inkblot so it may not be 1863. A Google search for Gillmore's autograph will show you that this is a genuine signature. CDV has been trimmed at bottom. Gillmore was born and raised in Black River (now the City of Lorain) in Lorain County, Ohio. He was named after the president-elect at the time of his birth, John Quincy Adams. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1845. He graduated in 1849, first in a class of 43 members. He was appointed to the engineers and was promoted to first lieutenant in 1856. From 1849 until 1852, he was engaged in constructing the fortifications at Hampton Roads in coastal Virginia. For the next four years, he was instructor of Practical Military Engineering at West Point and designed a new riding school. Beginning in 1856, Gillmore served as a purchasing agent for the Army in New York City. He was promoted to captain in 1861. With the outbreak of the Civil War in early 1861, Gilmore was assigned to the staff of Brig. Gen.Thomas W. Sherman and accompanied him to Port Royal, Virginia. After being appointed as a brigadier general, Gillmore took charge of the siege operations against Fort Pulaski. A staunch advocate of the relatively new naval rifled guns, he was the first officer to effectively use them to knock out an enemy stone fortification. More than 5,000 artillery shells fell on Pulaski from a range of 1,700 yards during the short siege, which resulted in the fort's surrender after its walls were breached. The result of the efforts to breach a fort of such strength and at such a distance confers high honor on the engineering skill and self-reliant capacity of General Gilmore. Failure in an attempt made in opposition to the opinion of the ablest engineers in the army would have destroyed him. Success, which in this case is wholly attributable to his talent, energy, and independence, deserves a corresponding reward. —New York Tribune Although he was one of the best artillerists and engineers in the army he was not well respected by his men. After an assignment in New York City, Gillmore traveled to Lexington, Kentucky, where he supervised the construction of Fort Clay on a hilltop commanding the city. He was then assigned to replace Maj. Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchel in charge of the X Corps after that officer's death from yellow fever. In addition, Gillmore commanded the Department of the South, consisting of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, with headquarters at Hilton Head, from June 12, 1863, to May 1, 1864. Under his direction, the army constructed two earthen forts in coastal South Carolina—Fort Mitchel and Fort Holbrook, located in the Spanish Wells area near Hilton Head Island. He commanded forces that occupied Morris Island, Fort Wagner, and Fort Gregg, and also participated in the destruction of Fort Sumter. On July 18, 1863, during the siege of Charleston, South Carolina, Gillmore launched a major assault on Fort Wagner. The troops who assaulted Ft. Wagner were primarily from the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, which included only African-Americans in its complement. Gillmore had ordered that his forces be integrated and that African-Americans were not to be assigned menial tasks only, such as KP or latrine duty, but instead they were to carry arms into battle. They and their assault on Ft. Wagner were the subject of the 1989 Civil War movie Glory, which starred Morgan Freeman and Matthew Broderick. "So shortly after 6:30 p.m., on July 18, 1863, the Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick) readied the 600 men of the 54th Massachusetts regiment for an assault on Ft. Wager. Shaw was the 25 year old son of Boston abolitionists, was white, as were all his officers. Again, all the regiment's enlisted complement were black, i.e. African-American." [from the History Net, African American History, 54th Massachusetts Regiment]. Although he does not received attribution for his command in the credits, the African American troops in the movie "Glory" were in fact under General Gillmore's command and were engaged in battle because of his orders ordering that they be allowed to do so. Prior that time, a 1792 law forbade African Americans from participating in the military, i.e., it forbade "persons of color from serving in the militia". However, his troops were unable to seize Charleston. In February 1864, Gillmore sent troops to Florida under the command of General Truman Seymour. Despite orders from Gillmore not to advance into the interior of the state, General Seymour advanced toward Tallahassee, the capitol, and fought the largest battle in Florida, the Battle of Olustee, which resulted in a Union defeat. In early May, Gillmore and the X Corps were transferred to the Army of the James and shipped to Virginia. They took part in the Bermuda Hundred operations and played a principal role in the disastrous Drewry's Bluff action. Gillmore openly feuded with his superior, Benjamin F. Butler over the blame for the defeat. Gillmore asked for reassignment and left for Washington, D.C., On July 11, 1864, Gillmore organized new recruits and invalids into a 20,000-man force to help protect the city from a threat by 10,000 Confederates under Jubal A. Early, who had reached the outer defenses of the Union capital. Gillmore was breveted as a major general of volunteers and a lieutenant colonel of engineers in the regular army. In mid-May 1865, Gillmore ordered all remaining slaves in the territory under his command to be freed; later that month he imposed martial law to enforce his orders. With the war over, he resigned from the volunteer army on December 5, 1865. Gillmore returned to New York City and became a well known civil engineer, authoring several books and articles on structural materials, including cement. He was involved in the reconstruction of fortifications along the Atlantic coast (including, ironically, some that he had destroyed as a Union general). He served on the Rapid Transit Commission that planned the elevated trains and mass public transportation, as well as leading efforts for harbor improvements and coastal defenses. He was a prominent member of the University Club of New York. His first wife died. He is reported to have married the widow of General Braxton Bragg, sometime after Bragg died in New Orleans in 1876. One of General Gillmore's sisters, Sophia, married a Civil War officer named Daniel Seth Leslie; Leslie was from the same area near Lorain, OH, as Gillmore. Three descendants of Daniel Seth Leslie were named in General Gillmore's honor, i.e. "Quincy Gillmore Leslie", his son "Quincy Charles Leslie" and his son, "Quincy Gilmore Leslie". In light of General Gillmore's association with African American troops under his command, Daniel Leslie was assigned some responsibilities for African American veterans after the Civil War. His name (Daniel Seth Leslie) is reported to appear on a monument to African American troops in the Washington, DC area. Some African Americans carried the Gillmore and Leslie names forward. The Traveling Secretary for the Negro Leagues Kansas City Monarchs was named Quincy "J." Jordan Gilmore. (note the change from two LL's in Gilmore). He was nicknamed "Sect" and held that position from 1920 to 1925, with the Monarchs winning the Negro League World Series in 1924. He was born in Gary, IN, on June 29, 1882, died Feb 2, 1952. A baseball card has been published in his honor, by "Phil Dixon, 1987". Also, there are at least two contemporary (1990's to 2007) African American's named Quincy Leslie, one of whom is a Sergeant in the US Air Force. General Gillmore died at Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 63. His son and grandson, both also named Quincy Gillmore, were also generals in the U.S. Army. A coal schooner named in his honor, the General QA Gillmore, sank in 1881 in Lake Erie about 45 miles west of Lorain, near Kelley's Island. The shipwreck remains in the shallow waters of the lake. A second ship was launched bearing his name, called the "Q. A. Gillmore". It was a steam powered tugboat "Hull #24" built for the Great Lakes Towing Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and launched around 1912-13. She also sailed on the Great Lakes and participated in rescues of ships in the famous and infamous Great Lakes storm of 1913. She was later sold and renamed the Reiss, which was a line of Great Lakes ore and commodity carriers, but which went out of business in the 1970s or so; one such ship was the Richard Reiss. The tug Q. A. Gillmore, now named the Reiss, is still afloat, anchored and located off of Tower Marine in Saugatuk, Michigan, and about 100 yards from the retired cruise ship S.S. Keewatin. Saugatuk is on the shores of Lake Michigan. According to the owner of Tower Marine, R.J. Peterson of Saugatuk, as of the winter of 2007, her engines were still operational. The Reiss was owned by the Saugatuk Marine Museum and they donated the vessel to the Northeastern Maritime Historical Foundation of Duluth, Minnesota, sometime around May 2004. However, she is stuck in a mud bank out in the harbor and has not moved in recent years. Bottom trim o/w VG. $325

CWCDV815. Barr & Young, Army Photographers, Palace of Art, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Unidentified Captain. Seriously trimmed at bottom. Fair. $48

CWCDV818. W.J. Moulton, Elmira, NY. Unidentified soldier. Trimmed. G. $33

CWCDV822. Theo. Evers' Atelier, Philadelphia. Unidentified Infantry office, "1" on cap, sash tinted purple. Trimmed at bottom. G. $42

CWCDV824. G.L. Hurd, Providence, R.I. Unidentified soldier. VG. $40

CWCDV827. Brooks & Blauvelt, Port Hudson, La. Unidentified captain. Corners clipped. VG. $42

CWCDV828. Hall & Bean, Dover, N.H. Unidentified 2nd lieutenant, sword and sash. 2-cent, cancelled revenue stamp on verso. VG. $85

CWCDV829. Brigham, Dover, N.H. Unidentified captain. 2-cent, cancelled revenue stamp on verso. VG. $45

CWCDV831. Rockwood, N.Y. Unidentified artillery officer. G. $55

CWCDV832. D. Denison's Gallery, Albany, NY. Unidentified infantry officer. VG. $60

CWCDV833. L.B. Brown, Providence, R.I. Unidentified captain. "H.3"? on cap. VG. $75

CWCDV834. E.W. Johnson, Nashua, N.H. Unidentified 2nd lieutenant. 2-cent, cancelled revenue stamp on verso. Trimmed on bottom. VG. $50

CWCDV835. C. Worms, NY. Unidentified artillery 1st lieutenant with sword. VG. $75

CWCDV836. T.E. Hanbury, Memphis. Unidentified infantry officer with sword. "33" on cap. G. $85

CWCDV838. Union Gallery, Danbury, Conn. Unidentified soldier. G. $36

CWCDV839. G.H. Scripture, Peterborough, N.H. Unidentified sergeant. Partial crease obvious on back above backmark. G-. $35

CWCDV842. Partridge, Photographist, Bridgeport, CT. Unidentified soldier. VG. $45

CWCDV843. A. Whissemore, Mansfield, Ohio. Unidentified infantry officer with sword, "12" on cap. Top corners clipped. G. $65

CWCDV846. Balz & Son, NY. Written on verso "37th Reft. NYNG Infantry." Trimmed. G. $125

CWCDV848. Brady's National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Brady's 1862 copyright line bottom recto. 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. $200

CWCDV849. No ID. Unidentified officer. VG. $32

CWCDV850. No ID. Unidentified officer with sword. VG. $40

CWCDV853. H.G. Pearce, Providence, R.I. Unidentified officer. VG. $38

CWCDV854. Webster & Bro., Louisville, Ky. Unidentified soldier. Low contrast. Fair. $35

CWCDV855. A. M. Cheney, Lansing, Mich. Unidentified man with vest wearing a badge with a cross on it. 2-cent, cancelled revenue stamp on verso. VG. $25

CWCDV856. No ID. Unidentified Infantry officer with a "2" on cap. The image is mounted to a paper mat but not attached to a card backing. VG. $75

CWCDV857. No ID. Unidentified Cavalry officer. Looks like a "1" on cap. The image is mounted to a paper mat but not attached to a card backing. VG. $75

CWCDV860. C.D. Fredricks & Co., NY. Gen. Robt E. Lee. VG. $250

CWCDV863. Philadelphia Photographic Co. General Grant. VG. $150

CWCAB18. No ID. Signed "Compliments of D.O. Hunter U.S. Army." General David Hunter commanded the Dept. of the South during the Civil War. He issued orders to free the slaves without authorization. Served on the Commission that tried the assassinators of Lincoln. VG. $650

CWCDV864. Brady, New York. Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish Brigade. Rare and unique double-signed and inscribed CDV. On front Meagher signs his name and follows it with "Irish Brigade." On back he writes: "To Miss Annie M. Stewart from Thomas Francis Meagher in return for her very beautiful bouquet presented to him on the departure of the 69th for the War."

Thomas Francis Meagher: Residence NY; a 37 year-old Lawyer. Enlisted on 5/12/1861 at New York City, NY as a Captain. On 5/12/1861 he was commissioned into "K" Co. NY 69th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 8/3/1861 at New York, NY. On 2/3/1862 he was commissioned into US Volunteers General Staff. He Resigned on 5/15/1865. He was listed as: * Wounded 12/13/1862 Fredericksburg, VA (Wounded in leg). Promotions: * Brig-General 2/3/1862. Other Information: born 8/3/1823 in Waterford, Ireland; died 7/1/1867 in Fort Benton, MT. (Drowned in the Upper Missouri River as acting Governor of Montana Territory). Meagher, Thomas F., brigadier-general, was born in Waterford, Ireland, Aug. 3, 1823.  He attended the Jesuit college at Clongowes, Kildare, 1832-36, and then Stonyhurst College, near Preston, England, where he remained until 1843 and became one of the leaders of the revolutionary Young Ireland party in 1846. In consequence of his actions and incendiary speeches he was arrested on charge of sedition, in March, 1848 was bailed, but after the passage of the treason felony act was rearrested and sentenced to death. The sentence was subsequently commuted to banishment for life, and he was sent to Van Dieman's island, in 1849, whence he escaped in 1852, and, coming to the United States, studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and practiced in New York City until the Civil war. In 1861 he organized a company of volunteers and joined the 68th N. Y. regiment under Col. Michael Corcoran.  He was acting major of the regiment in the battle of Bull Run and had a horse shot under him; and he then returned to New York and was mustered out of the service with his regiment. In the winter of 1861-62 he recruited the Irish Brigade, was elected colonel of the 1st regiment, and on Feb. 3, 1862, was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers and given command of the brigade. He was present at the battles of Fair Oaks, Gaines' Mill, Malvern Hill, Frazier's Farm, second Bull Run, Antietam, where his horse was shot under him, and Chancellorsville. At Fredericksburg he was wounded in the leg. Gen. Meagher gave up his commission after the battle of Chancellorsville, but was reappointed brigadier-general early in 1864 and commanded the district of Etowah, Ga.  In Jan., 1865, he was ordered to Savannah, Ga., where he was mustered out, May 15, 1865. After leaving the service Gen. Meagher was appointed territorial secretary of Montana, and while acting governor in the absence of Gov. Sidney Edgerton he embarked on an expedition to protect the white settlers from the Indians, and was drowned in the Missouri river, by falling off a steamboat, near Fort Benton, Mont., July 1, 1867. [Historical Data Systems, Inc.]. Corners rounded. VG. $2750

CWCDV865. A.S. Morse, Photographer, Dep't of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn. Nashville, Tenn. Hospital No. 1. Sept. 15th, 1864. Mrs. Alma Bennett, Wife Alma Wolcott of Beloit, Wis. Missionary, US Christian Commission. VG. $500

CWCDV866. No ID. Interior of Union Hospital. African-American nurse on right. VG. $675

CWCDV868. No ID. Seaman Edward Fealy, USS Roanoke. Roanoke launched on 13 December 1855 at Norfolk Navy Yard; and commissioned 4 May 1857, Captain John B. Montgomery in command. Assigned to the Home Squadron as flagship, Roanoke’s first duty was to return the American filibuster and former President of Nicaragua, William Walker, and 205 of his men to the United States. Sailing for Aspinwall, Colombia, (now called Colon, Panama), on 30 May 1857, Roanoke returned on 4 August with Walker and his followers. Subsequently, Roanoke was sent to Boston Navy Yard where she decommissioned on 24 September 1857. Recommissioned on 18 August 1858, Roanoke resumed her duties as flagship of the Home Squadron. Roanoke devoted the following months to cruising in the West Indies, carrying the U.S. Minister at Bogotá, George W. Jones, to Aspinwall and Cartagena. For over a year, she was stationed at Aspinwall awaiting the arrival of a special Japanese embassy to the United States. The Japanese delegation, traveling to Washington to exchange ratifications of the 1858 treaty, departed Yokohama on 13 February 1860 in the frigate USS Powhatan and reached Aspinwall by a train across the isthmus on 25 April 1860. The Roanoke embarked the delegation and reached Hampton Roads on 12 May 1860 and was decommissioned. Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, Roanoke recommissioned on 20 June 1861. Attached to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, she destroyed the schooner Mary off Lockwood’s Inlet, N.C., on 13 July 1861. The screw frigate subsequently took part in the capture of the schooners Albion and Alert and helped take the ship Thomas Watson off Charleston, S.C., on 15 October 1861. During the attack of the CSS Virginia (the former USS Merrimack) on Union warships in Hampton Roads, 8 March 1862, Roanoke's deep draft prevented her from engaging the Confederate casement ram and kept her out of action the next day when the Virginia engaged the Union turreted ironclad, USS Monitor. Roanoke embarked 268 men f