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.
Portrait of Elliz Pierce Lantz, who was a lawyer in Waynesburg, Pa. He was born in Blacksville, W. Va., married Ida B. Johnson on October 19, 1880, and died in 1883.