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- IDNO:
- 000934
- Title:
- Oley, Colonel J. H. & Field & Staff Officers of the 7th W. Va. Cavalry
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- Colonel John H. Oley (later Brevet Brigadier General) and field and staff officers of the 7th West Virginia Cavalry. Later the regiment was mounted and became the 8th West Virginia Mounted Infantry; early in 1864 the designation was changed to the 7th West Virginia Cavalry. Officers in picture are: Left to right, seated - first row - Major Edgar B. Blundon, Lt. Thomas H. Burton, Dr. Louis V. Sanford, and Lt. John McCombs. Second row - seated - Chaplain Andrew W.? Gregg, Lt. Colonel John J. Posley, Colonel Oley, Major Hedgeman Slack, Lt. John W. Winfield. Third row - standing - Major William Gramm, Dr. James H. Rouse, Dr. Lucius L. Comstock, Captain Jacob M. Rife, and Lt. D. William Polsley.
- IDNO:
- 001153
- Title:
- Portrait of Unidentified Confederate Officer
- Date:
- ca. 1862
- Description:
- Bearded man wearing a dress uniform with dark trim, of a Confederate officer, and holding a sword.
- IDNO:
- 005825
- Title:
- Lee, General Robert E.
- Description:
- Silhouette portrait of General Robert E. Lee seated.
- IDNO:
- 011571
- Title:
- Dr. Willard Bliss, Surgeon in Charge, Armory Square Hospital, Washington D.C.
- Date:
- ca. 1864
- Description:
- Bliss was head of one of the largest army hospitals for wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War.
- IDNO:
- 031506
- Title:
- Confederate General William E. 'Grumble' Jones of Washington County, Va.
- Date:
- 1862
- Description:
- Jones entered the war as a Captain in the 1st Virginia Cavalry and was subsequently promoted to General, commanding the Laurel Brigade under J.E.B. Stuart. In 1863 he was transferred to the Trans-Allegheny Department, leading the successful "Jones-Imboden Cavalry Raid" through a large portion of West Virginia. Jones was killed in the Shenandoah Valley during the Battle at Piedmont, Virginia, June, 1864.
- IDNO:
- 037916
- Title:
- Lieutenant Colonel David Hunter Strother during Civil War
- Date:
- ca. 1863
- Description:
- The artist and writer, also known as Porte Crayon, served in the Union Army.
- IDNO:
- 038605
- Title:
- Confederate Veteran Colonel Charles S. Peyton of Ronceverte, W. Va.
- Description:
- Charles Peyton, originally from Albemarle County, Virginia, served in the 19th Virginia Infantry in Richard Garnett's Brigade. The first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Peyton, a major, was third in commanding rank in the 19th Virginia Regiment. After Pickett's Charge on the third day of the battle, Peyton was in command of the entire brigade as the result attrition of higher ranked officers, including the death of General Garnett.
- IDNO:
- 038615
- Title:
- Confederate Veteran Lieutenant Samuel W. N. Feamster of Greenbrier County, W. Va., 14th Virginia Cavalry
- Description:
- The 14th Regiment was under the command of McCausland and part of JEB Stuart's cavalry.
- IDNO:
- 038617
- Title:
- Confederate Veteran, Jacob W. Mathews, Captain, Company I, 25th Virginia Infantry
- Description:
- This company was formed with several men from Pocahontas County, Virginia (West Virginia).
- IDNO:
- 038619
- Title:
- Confederate Veteran R. T. Higginbotham, First Lieutenant, Company H, Virginia Cavalry
- Description:
- Company H was also known as the Rockbridge Dragoons (Rockbridge County, Shenandoah, Virginia).
- IDNO:
- 039050
- Title:
- Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan H. Lockwood, Seventh West Virginia Infantry
- Date:
- 1864
- Description:
- A photograph of a sketch of the Commander of 7th West Virginia Regiment, Army of the Potomac. Lockwood took command during the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862 to the Battle of Spotsylvania, May, 1864, where he was wounded.
- IDNO:
- 039051
- Title:
- Lieutenant Colonel Francis W. H. Baldwin, Commander of the Seventh West Virginia Infantry During the Appomattox Campaign
- Description:
- This photograph shows Baldwin later in life as a "scholarly patriarch". He assumed command of the regiment following Jonathan Lockwood's resignation.
