Visual Materials

Photographs of Confederate States of America army generals and high-ranking officers

Image not available

Description: A collection of portrait photographs of over 200 Confederate army generals and high-ranking personnel, mostly taken during the Civil War, 1861-1865. Photographs include cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, cyanotypes, and albumen prints affixed to paper. Many have biographical notes or regimental history written on the back, or clippings from newspapers adhered next to the photograph on board. Sitters are in uniform and in civilian clothes. Includes portraits taken into the 1890s. There are no images of General Robert E. Lee or James Longstreet. There are occasionally portraits of Confederate sympathizers, such as Mary E. Surratt.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1861-1890s.
Call number: photPF 2920-3275
Provenance: Some items have writing noting they were acquired from Eldridge, 1916.; Some items stamped: Collection of Charles B. Hall or Collection of Americana, Frederick H. Meserve.
Restrictions

The Society of the Army & Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland

Visual Materials

Image of a blank certificate issued by the Society of the Army & Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland; portraits of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, General Stonewall Jackson, and Admiral Franklin Buchanan, Confederate soldiers on the battlefield during the American Civil War, and Confederate flags accompany certificate text at center surrounded by columns.

priJLC_MIL_000831

Image not available

Photographs of Civil War generals and officers

Visual Materials

Carte-de-visite photographs of Civil War generals and officers, almost all taken during the war. Includes: Benjamin Franklin Butler; David Farragut; Henry Halleck; five different portraits of Robert E. Lee; L. K. Westcott; Gouverneur Kemble Warren; R. H. Johnson; four different portraits of William Rosecrans; Alexander McCook; Edwin Stanton; Winfield Scott; and two different portraits of Ulysses S. Grant. Several photographs by Mathew Brady.

photPF 2880-2899

Image not available

Portraits of Civil War generals, officers, legislators, and related photographs

Visual Materials

Carte-de-visite photographs of primarily Confederate Army generals, with a few Union Army generals, and portraits of other individuals. Contents: (photograph of a drawing) of Jefferson Davis (on verso: ticket for a raffle for the original drawing, held in Macon, Georgia); Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook; Gen. John Bankhead Magruder; Gen. William Mahone; Gen. George Gordon Meade; Alfred Mitchell; Col. John H. Morgan (1825-1864); Edward Duffield Neill; Rev. Nicholson (Richmond, Virginia); John Ott (Virginia); Gen. William Pendleton; Gen. George E. Pickett; John T. Pickett; Gen. John Pegram; Rev. William Swan Plumer; Davis Quinn (purser, steamer Keyport); Gen. George W. Randolph; Conway Robinson; Gen. Lovell Rousseau; John Thomas Scharf; Confederate Navy Admiral Rafael Semmes; Gen. William T. Sherman; Thaddeus Stevens (legislator); Mary Spotswood, daughter of Charles Campbell; Flora Cooke Stuart, wife of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart; Charles Sumner (senator); Gen. William R. Terry; Robert Toombs (Confederate secretary of state); Brig. Gen. Williams Carter Wickham; Gen. Henry A. Wise. Majority of photographs taken at Lee Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; a few by Mathew Brady, Washington D.C.

photPF 2210-2242

Image not available

United States Army and Navy officer photographs

Visual Materials

The Civil War collection of United States Army and Naval officers consist of twenty-four carte de visite and cabinet card portraits attributed to the James William Eldridge collection (mssEG). The military figures include such persons as Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870), Admiral Andrew Hull Foote (1806-1863), Major General George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885), Brigadier General Theodore Runyon (1822-1896), and Admiral William Branford Shubrick (1790-1874). The collection also includes an image of George W. Sadler (1819-1876), the undertaker who escorted John Brown to his execution.

photPF 3276-3299b

Image not available

Confederate States of America

Manuscripts

The James William Eldridge collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents, printed military forms, autographs, ephemera, and approximately 4000 portraits and contemporary photographs, which date from 1797-1902. The collection documents military history of the Civil War, from both the Union and Confederate sides, concentrating on commanding officers, military and naval operations and administration, the armed forces of South Carolina and Virginia, and the everyday life of the common soldiers (including prisons and medical care). Also included are materials on civilian administration and politics during the war years, concentrating on governors, mayors, and congressmen. The bulk of the collection deals with the American Civil War, although there is some material on the antebellum and post-war politics and military history, including the raid on Harpers Ferry and the post-war Navy. The collection contains materials from US presidents James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, and Rutherford B. Hayes.

mssEG

Image not available

Portraits of Lincoln administration members and Confederate conspirators

Visual Materials

Consists of 88 photographs, including snapshots and carte-de-visite photographs. Union sitters include Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, Simon Cameron, Salmon P. Chase, William Dennison, John Hay, Joseph Holt, William P. Fessenden, Hugh McCulloch, John G. Nicholay, William H. Seward, Frederick W. Seward, James Speed, Edwin M. Stanton, Miss Katherine Chase Sprague, John Palmer Usher, and Gideon Welles. Confederate sitters include Alexander Stephens, Linton Stephens, and John C. Breckinridge. Additional portraits of the Lincoln kidnapping and assassination conspirators are also included: Samuel B. Arnold, Georg A. Atzerodt, John Wilkes Booth, David E. Herold, Michael O'Laughlen, Lewis Powell (Lewis Payne, or Paine) Edward Spangler, and Mary E. Surratt. Also included are three portraits of Boston Corbett, the Union sergeant who shot John Wilkes Booth. Some of these items are noted as reproduced from Frederick H. Meserve holdings.

photPF 1870-1909

Photographs of Confederate States of America army generals and high-ranking officers

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

The Society of the Army & Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland

Photographs of Civil War generals and officers

Portraits of Civil War generals, officers, legislators, and related photographs

United States Army and Navy officer photographs

Confederate States of America

Portraits of Lincoln administration members and Confederate conspirators