CDV Major Robert Anderson

Very rare view taken in Charleston, S.C. on Quinby card!

(1805-1871) Graduated in the West Point class of 1825. He participated in the Black Hawk, Florida and Mexican Wars and was twice brevetted for gallantry. In November 1860, he was ordered to Charleston Harbor to command the three United States forts there; Castle Pickney, Fort Moultrie, and Fort Sumter, in the face of South Carolina's imminent secession. Anderson refused a formal demand for his surrender and in the early morning hours of April 12, 1861, Fort Sumter was bombarded, and...  

CDV General Peter J. Osterhaus

(1823-1917) The most distinguished of the foreign born officers who served in the Union Army was born in Coblenz, Germany. After receiving a military education he became embroiled in the revolution which swept Europe in 1848 and the following year was forced to flee to the United States. He settled in Illinois and then moved to St. Louis whose large German population made him welcome. Osterhaus entered the Civil War as a major of a Missouri battalion and was mustered in on April 27, 1861. He fought at Wilson's Creek in August with his battalion and in...  

CDV General George G. Meade

(1815-1872) Graduated in the West Point class of 1835, and won a brevet in the Mexican War. He fought in the 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign and the Seven Days battles being very severely wounded at Glendale. He recovered in time to see action at 2nd Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Elevated to command of the Army of the Potomac, he defeated General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg and went on to fight in all of their battles culminating in the surrender at Appomattox Court House.

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CDV General Quincy A. Gillmore

(1825-88) Graduated #1 in the West Point class of 1849. Gillmore was chief engineer of the Port Royal expedition in 1861-62 which effected an important Union lodgement on the Carolina coast. His greatest moment in the Civil War came when his brilliant plan reduced Fort Pulaski, Ga., the Confederate stronghold which guarded the approach to the Savannah River. In 1863 he commanded the Department of the South and was in charge of the Charleston campaign. It was said that his operations constituted a new era in the science of engineering and gunnery. In 1864,...  

CDV General James McQuade

Colonel 14th New York Infantry

(1829-85) Born in Utica, N.Y., he was educated at McGill Univ., and was a banker, merchant and municipal official. Commissioned colonel of the 14th New York Infantry on May 17, 1861. He was promoted to brevet brigadier general, March 13, 1865.

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Standing view in uniform with rank of full colonel, with sword. Backmark: Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, New York and Washington, D.C. Light age toning and wear. Very fine....  

CDV General Samuel J. Crawford

Autographed carte de visite

Commander 2nd Kansas Cavalry

Colonel 83rd U.S. Colored Troops

Governor of Kansas

(1835-1913) Born in Lawrence County, Indiana, he graduated from Cincinnati College School of Law in 1858. He moved to Kansas Territory in 1859, and commenced a law practice in Garnett. Instrumental in helping to organize the Republican Party in Kansas, he was elected a member of the first Kansas state legislature in November 1859. When war broke out, he resigned his legislative seat and was commissioned captain in...  

CDV General Darius N. Couch

(1822-97) Graduated in the West Point class of 1846 along with George B. McClellan and Stonewall Jackson. 46 graduates survived to fight in the Civil War including 19 who became full generals for either the Union or Confederate armies! Couch fought in the Mexican War and was brevetted for gallantry. He became colonel of the 7th Massachusetts Infantry early in the war, and was promoted to brigadier general on Aug. 9, 1861. He compiled a distinguished record in the Peninsular campaign as a division commander in the 4th Corps, and was appointed major general...  

CDV General James M. Williams

Autographed carte de visite

Colonel 79th U.S. Colored Infantry

(1833-1907) A lawyer before the war, he enlisted on July 12, 1861, and was commissioned captain, 5th Kansas Cavalry. Commissioned lieutenant colonel, 79th U.S. Colored Infantry, Jan. 13, 1863; promoted to colonel, May 2, 1863; and brevet brigadier general, Feb. 13, 1865. After the Civil War, he served as captain, in the 8th U.S. Cavalry, promoted to brevet major for conspicious gallantry in engagements with Indians on the Verde, Arizona; retired Jan. 12, 1891.

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CDV General John Sedgwick

Killed at Spotsylvania, Virginia in 1864

(1813-1864) Graduated in the West Point class of 1837. Won two brevets in the Mexican War. Sedgwick saw action in the Peninsular campaign until his wounding at the battle of Glendale. He distinguished himself at the battle of Antietam, and was wounded three times before being carried off the field unconscious. He later fought at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and the Wilderness. At Spotsylvania, on May 9, 1864, his aides cautioned him about the unnecessary risks he was taking in exposing himself to the...  

CDV General Alvan C. Gillem

His troops killed Confederate General John Hunt Morgan!

(1830-75) He graduated in the West Point class of 1851 and served against the Florida Seminoles and on the frontier of Texas. During the Civil War he served at the battles of Mill Springs, Ky., and Shiloh, Tenn. In May 1862, he became colonel of the 10th Tennessee Union Infantry and at the insistance of Andrew Johnson, Gillem was appointed brigadier general of volunteers to rank from Aug. 17, 1863. In 1864, it was his troops that killed the celebrated Confederate guerrilla, General John...  

CDV General Robert S. Granger

(1816-94) Graduated in the West Point class of 1838. Almost 50% of this class attained the rank of full general on either side, Union or Confederate, during the Civil War. He served in the Florida Seminole War, in the Mexican War, and was an instructor at West Point. At the outbreak of the War Between The States, while a Major in the 5th U.S Infantry, he was captured on duty in Texas and not paroled until August 1862. He was appointed Brig. Gen. U.S. Vols. in Oct. 1862, and served in Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Alabama, where he resisted the invasions...  

CDV General Robert Cowdin

(1805-74) Born in Jamaica, Vermont. When the Civil War commenced he was serving as colonel of the 2nd Massachusetts Militia. On May 25, 1861, he was commissioned colonel of the 1st Massachusetts Infantry, and he commanded them in the 1st battle of Bull Run, where he had a horse shot out from under him. During the 1862 Virginia Peninsula campaign he saw action at Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Glendale, and Malvern Hill. For bravery at Williamsburg, General Joseph Hooker recommended him for promotion to brigadier general. He later commanded a brigade in the...