United States Brigadier General William S. Rosecrans.
Date:
ca. 1860
Description:
Engraving of Brig. Gen. Rosecrans, U.S.A. Engraved for Rebellion Record. New York, G.P. Putnam. Rosecrans commanded Union troops in western (West) Virginia in 1861 during the first land campaign of the Civil War
Engraving of J.W. Shields. Likeness from the last photograph from life. Johnson, Fry and Co. Publishers New York. Entered according to act of Congress AD1862 by Johnson, Fry and Co. in the clerks offuce of the district court for the southern district of NY.
Text on the back reads, "General Benjamin Franklin Kelley, here with 1st West Virginia hat. Captured by Confederate raiders on Feb. 21, 1865." Kelley served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.