(1833-80) Graduated in the West Point class of 1855. On Sept. 16, 1861, he became colonel of the 1st New Jersey Infantry. During the first 3 years of the Civil War, Torbert acted as an infantry commander, fighting in the campaign of 1862 on the Virginia Peninsula, in the campaigns of 2nd Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. He was promoted to brigadier general to rank from Nov. 29, 1862. In 1864, he was assigned to command a cavalry division under Gen. Phil Sheridan. Torbert took part in the several cavalry actions that summer and in August became chief of cavalry of the Middle Military Division in the Shenandoah Valley. He inflicted a severe defeat on the Confederate cavalrymen Thomas L. Rosser and Lunsford L. Lomax at Tom's Brook, in early October, and later that month saw action at Cedar Creek. He drowned in 1880 when the steamer Vera Cruz, which he was travelling on, sunk off Cape Canaveral.

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Half view in uniform with rank of major general. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, with 2 cents revenue tax stamp on the reverse. There is also a typed label with name and rank affixed to the bottom of the mount. Corners of the card are trimmed. Light age toning. Very fine. Scarce.