A carte de visite portrait of an unidentified bearded man wearing a hat. There is a revenue stamp on the back of photograph indicating a tax had been paid on the image. This tax was collected, 1864 to 1866 by the Federal government to pay for the war.
This carte de visite has a federal revenue stamp on the back indicating a tax was paid on the photograph. This tax was passed by Congress, 1864-1866, to pay for the war. The young woman is wearing the fashion and hair style of the Civil War period.
A carte de visite image of Union General George B. McClellan and his staff, left to right: Captain Clark, General McClellan striking a napoleonic pose, Captain Van Vliet and Major Barry. Information printed on the bottom of image: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, by M.B. Brady, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Columbia."
Union General John Geary and Staff, Harpers Ferry, Va. (W. Va. )
Date:
1861
Description:
Geary commanded the 28th Pennsylvania Regiment and several other companies in the Harpers Ferry and Sandy Hook areas during the Union Army occupation in 1861. Identified officers are, L to R: 3rd from left, Captain Thomas Hollingsworth; 4th, General John Geary; 5th, Major Hector Tyndale.
Sigel commanded the Federal forces in the Shenandoah Valley during the Spring of 1864, with many West Virginia units under him. After his defeat at New Market, Virginia, Sigel was reassigned to the Department of West Virginia, protecting the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Milroy commanded the Cheat Mountain District in 1861, losing his first battle at Camp Allegheny. He surprised Stonewall Jackson at the Battle of McDowell in early May of 1862, inflicting heavy casualties.
Rosecrans was responsible for several Union victories including the Battle of Rich Mountain during the Summer of 1861 in Randolph County, Virginia (West Virginia).
Union Army Second Lieutenant John Hinebaugh, Company D, 6th West Virginia Cavalry, from Preston County, W. Va.
Date:
ca.1862
Description:
Inscription at the bottom of the image, "Yours ... John Hinebough". The 6th West Virginia Cavalry served in the mountains and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia during the war.
An older woman in a bonnet and polka dot dress. There is a revenue stamp on the back of the photograph indicating a tax was paid to support the Federal War effort during the Civil war.
Information included on the back of the carte de viste, " 'Morgantown Hill', morning of 21st, August, '73, Uniontown, In memorial of one of the happiest of days."
Cooper replaced John Carlile in the 1861 Virginia State Covention after the vote to secede. He served as an officer in the 31st Virginia Regiment, Confederate Army, for the duration of the Civil War.
Spencer Dayton of Philippi, Barbour County, Va. (W. Va.)
Date:
ca. 1860
Description:
Involved in the founding of the state of West Virginia, served as delegate at the first and second Wheeling Conventions, one term in the West Virginia State Senate and State Prosecuting Attorney for Barbour, Randolph, Taylor and Tucker Counties.
Alston Gordon Dayton , West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1874
Description:
This photograph taken while Dayton was a student at WVU. He was the son of Spencer and Sarah Dayton of Philippi. He would subsequently serve in Congress and as a judge in the Federal Courts in West Virginia.
Confederate General Henry A. Wise of Accomack County, Va.
Date:
ca. 1861
Description:
Wise served as governor of Virginia, 1856-1860. He supported Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861 and began waging war against the Union before the Ordinance of Secession was passed, by ordering the Virginia Militia to forcibly take possession of the U. S. facilities at Harpers' Ferry and Norfolk. Subsequently Wise was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army and after the war labeled himself an "unsubmitting rebel", refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance to the United States government. Bitter toward Western Virginia and later West Virginia, Wise judged the new state as a “bastard child of a political rape”.
Confederate General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, Spotsylvania, Va.
Date:
1863/04/26
Description:
Known as the "Chancellorsville Portrait", this photograph was taken less then a week before the Battle of Chancellorsville, where Jackson was mortally wounded. The original photographer was Mr Minnis of Minnis and Cromwell from Richmond, Va. This carte de visite is by Tanner & Vannes of Lynchburg, Va.
