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American Civil War Photograph Album belonging to Frederic-Sears I Grand dHauteville dated 1862, green leather cover with brass hinges, containing 158 period photographs featuring political and military figures.
The photographs are laid out in two sections:
1. Portraitsof members of Abraham Lincolns government in the north and his general staffincluding:
The Presidentand his wife, Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin, Secretary of State William H.Seward, War Secretaries Simon Cameron and Edwin M. Stanton, Generals andSuperior Officers such as Gen. Winfield Scott, Maj.Gen. Georges McClellan, Maj.Gen. Ulysses Grant, Maj. Gen.William Tecumseh Sherman.
2. Portraitsof members of the government, Confederate States Army and general staff startingwith President Jefferson Davis andhis wife, Maj. Gen, Robert Lee, Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Gen.Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard, Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg, Maj. Gen, Albert S. Johnston.
The photgraphswere mainly taken by E.Anthony,501 Broadway, New-York, J.E. Tilton & Co, 161 Washington Street,Boston, and J.W. Black, 173Washington Street, Boston. The album has pencil and ink annotations and notes by Frederic-Sears I Grandd'Hauteville (1838-1918) and his mother Ellen Sears (1820-1862).
Description
American Civil War Photograph Album belonging to
Frederic-Sears I Grand dHauteville dated 1862, green leather cover with brass
hinges, containing 158 period photographs featuring political and military figures.
The photographs are laid out in two sections:
1. Portraitsof members of Abraham Lincolns government in the north and his general staffincluding:
The Presidentand his wife, Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin, Secretary of State William H.Seward, War Secretaries Simon Cameron and Edwin M. Stanton, Generals andSuperior Officers such as Gen. Winfield Scott, Maj.Gen. Georges McClellan, Maj.Gen. Ulysses Grant, Maj. Gen.William Tecumseh Sherman.
2. Portraitsof members of the government, Confederate States Army and general staff startingwith President Jefferson Davis andhis wife, Maj. Gen, Robert Lee, Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Gen.Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard, Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg, Maj. Gen, Albert S. Johnston.
The photgraphswere mainly taken by E.Anthony,501 Broadway, New-York, J.E. Tilton & Co, 161 Washington Street,Boston, and J.W. Black, 173Washington Street, Boston.
The album has pencil and ink annotations and notes by Frederic-Sears I Grandd'Hauteville (1838-1918) and his mother Ellen Sears (1820-1862).