Confederate CDV's

CDV Dead Confederate Generals

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Individual views, on one card, of 14 Confederate generals who were killed during the War Between The States. Includes: Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Earl Van Dorn, John Hunt Morgan, William Barksdale, Albert Sidney Johnston, J.E.B. Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, John S. Bowen, Felix Zollicoffer, Lloyd Tilghman, Albert G. Jenkins, Ben McCullouch, Leonidas Polk and James E. Rains [misidentified as G.J. Rains] Title on the card reads, Confederate Dead. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York....  

CDV General Braxton Bragg

(1817-76) Graduated in the West Point class of 1837. He fought against the Florida Seminoles and served gallantly in the Mexican War. On Mar. 7, 1861, he was appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate Army and assigned to command the coast from Pensacola to Mobile. A special favorite of President Jefferson Davis, he was promoted to major general, Sept. 12, 1861, and commanded the 2nd Corps of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston's army at Shiloh. In June 1862, he was appointed commander of the Army of Tennessee which he led in the invasion of Kentucky ending...  

CDV General David E. Twiggs

(1790-62) The oldest officer of the old army to take up arms for the Confederacy, he was born in Richmond County, Ga. He had a long and distinguished career in the U.S. Army. Commissioned a captain in the 8th Infantry on Mar. 12, 1812, he took a gallant part in the second war with England. At the outbreak of the Mexican War he held rank of colonel of the 2nd Dragoons, and soon after, brigadier general. For his services in that war, particularly at the storming of Monterey, he received the brevet of major general and the presentation of a sword by...  

CDV General John C. Breckenridge

(1821-75) After attending Centre College and Transylvania University, he began practicing law in his home town of Lexington, Ky. in 1845. A member of the Kentucky legislature from 1849-51, he became Vice President of the United States in 1856 in the Buchanan administration. On Nov. 2, 1861, he accepted a commission as brigadier general in the Confederate army, and was promoted to major general to rank from April 14, 1862. He served at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro where he distinguished himself, Chickamauga, and the 1864 Shenandoah Valley...  

CDV Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury

(1806-73) Reknown hydrographer called the "Pathfinder of the Seas." At the age of 19 he joined the navy as a midshipman and published his first book, "Maury's Navigation," in 1843. Among his projects were the establishment of a river wide system of information on the Mississippi's condition and the enlargement of the inland canal system. In 1842, he was named head of the hydrographical office of the navy. He brought out his paper on the Gulf Stream, ocean currents and great circle sailing in 1844 and books entitled "A Scheme for...  

CDV General Henry Heth

(1825-99) Born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, he graduated in the West Point class of 1847. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned colonel of the 45th Virginia Infantry and saw action under General Floyd in the 1861 western Virginia campaign. He was promoted to brigadier general to rank from Jan. 6, 1862, and took part in the Kentucky campaign under Gen. E. Kirby Smith. He then joined the Army of Northern Virginia and was assigned a brigade in Gen. A.P. Hill's division, which he led at Chancellorsville. He was nominated to rank of major...  

CDV General P.G.T. Beauregard

(1818-93) The 4th highest ranking officer in the Confederacy, and one of the best known Confederate Generals to come out of the War Between The States. He graduated #2 in the West Point class of 1838, and was brevetted captain and major for gallantry in the Mexican War. He was in command at Charleston, S.C., in April 1861, during the bombardment and capture of Fort Sumter, and rose to instant fame in the Confederacy. He also saw action at 1st Manassas, Shiloh, the 1863-64 Charleston, S.C. campaign, Bermuda Hundred and Petersburg, Va. Beauregard was a...  

CDV General J.E.B. Stuart

Mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Va. in 1864

(1833-1864) Graduated #13 in the West Point class of 1854. He was wounded on the frontier during Indian fighting. He was the aide of Colonel R. E. Lee during John Brown's raid of Harpers Ferry. During the Civil War he became one of the most daring and legendary cavalry commanders, serving with Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. He was mortally wounded on May 11, 1864, after intercepting Union General Phil Sheridan's raid at Yellow Tavern, Virginia, dying the next day. His death was...  

CDV Generals of the Confederacy

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Includes portraits of Confederate Generals' Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart, James Longstreet, John Hunt Morgan, Joseph E. Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard. No backmark. Light age toning, a couple of small digs in the edges of the card mount, light edge wear. The portraits are all very fine. Composite of some of the Confederacy's most important generals.  

CDV President Jefferson Davis

(1808-1889) Graduated in the West Point class of 1828. He married the daughter of General and President Zachary Taylor, but she died only 3 months after their marriage. Elected to the U.S. Congress in 1845, he resigned to fight in the Mexican War, served under General Taylor, and was severely wounded at the battle of Buena Vista. He declined the appointment of brigadier general in the U.S. Army to re-enter politics, serving as a U.S. Senator from Mississippi. In 1853, he was appointed Secretary of War by President Franklin Pierce. He was chosen as the...  

CDV General Leonidas Polk

Killed at Pine Mountain, Ga. in 1864

(1806-64) Known as the "Bishop Militant," he graduated in the West Point class of 1827. Soon after he entered the Episcopal ministry, and later became Missionary Bishop of the Southwest. Exchanging his clerical vestments for an army uniform upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he was appointed major general in the Confederate Army on June 25, 1861, and lieutenant general to rank Oct. 10, 1862. In the early months of the war he commanded the vast territory of Department No. 2, including the...  

CDV Colonel Randal W. MacGavock

10th Tennessee Infantry

Killed in action in 1863 at the battle of Raymond, Miss.

(1826-63) Born in Nashville, he graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1846, and the Harvard Law School in 1849. Active in local and national politics, he was elected mayor of Nashville in 1856, and served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1860. A strong advocate of states rights, he campaigned for John C. Breckenridge for president. With the threat of war imminent, Mac Gavock raised a company of Irish volunteers that were...