Commanders book that belonged to Evin Knudson. The book contains cartes de visite of officers in his chain of command in the Union Army. Cartes de visite of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Vice President Andrew Johnson...
Carte de visite showing Major Joseph J. Cooper, Company F, 39th Regiment Volunteer Massachusetts Militia, USA. Cooper, looking away from the camera, is standing with one hand tucked into the front of his uniform coat. Cooper enlisted in the...
Carte de visite of Mary C. Miller, first wife of David Preston Sherfy (alias George W. Garber). Miller died in 1888 at the age of 40 after suffering from an epileptic seizure and drowning in Knob Creek.
Carte de visite of Gen. Joseph Horace Lewis. Lewis was commander of Gen. John C. Breckenridge's Orphan Brigade, comprised of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, and 9th Ky. Inf. Regts. along with two batteries of artillery. After the war, Lewis was elected to...
Carte de visite of David Preston Sherfy. Sherfy, using the alias George W. Garber, enlisted in Co. H, 1st Ill. Cav. Regt. at Cairo, Ill., on July 17, 1861. He was promoted to full corporal and mustered out on July 5, 1862. He enlisted in Co. C,...
Hand-colored carte de visite of African American Sgt. Dick Johnson, 3rd US Colored Cavalry (USCC), detailed to David Preston Sherfy. On February 18, 1865, at Hamburg, Ark., Sherfy fell from his horse and severely injured his leg. Sgt. Johnson cared...
Carte de visite of J. J. Neeley with rank of captain (early 1861). Note the yellow cavalry sash, confederate brass frame revolver, saber, and two-piece Haiman C S beltplate. Photograph by Fittman & Wolfrom. Three-cent tax stamp on reverse. Neeley...
Hartmus, of Cos. F and S, 34th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, was on staff of Gen. William B. Bate from 1862 to 1865. The carte de visite was taken by A. B. Langford, photographer, of Jackson, Tenn.
Three-quarter length portrait of a soldier wearing a dress uniform with frog-style closures and a baldric and sword belt. A pair of gloves is in his right hand and his left rests on the hilt of a sword.
Full-length portrait of two Federal soldiers in uniform. One is standing with his right hand in his tunic, and one is seated with a sword across his lap and his right hand in his tunic.
Full-length portrait of Federal Captain William Inness, in an overcoat and uniform. He is resting his right arm on a pedestal draped with an American flag, and he holds a kepi in his right hand.
Soldiers; Portrait photographs; Military uniforms; Military officers; Military camps; Tents
Full-length carte de viste portrait of Union Lieutenant C. F. Braden (or Brader) with arms crossed. He wears a five-pointed star medal on his left chest. The painted backdrop depicts an army camp.
