Civil War Daguerreotype US Marine, Confederate Marine Identified VERY RARE IMAGE

  

Included Archival records & handwritten letters on research request, and article on CSMC. Enjoy, and good luck on this rare image.

VERY RARE DAG of United States Marine 1856. Maybe 3 to 4 in private hands, and 2 in institutions.

Very seldom seen on market. You can see US Marine buttons...... Retail on this item 5-6k, don't miss the opportunity. Brought to you by Chris Carroll at CWI (Civil War Investments) Member: The Company of Military Historians. Please see my other auctions.

George Pendelton Turner, Caroline Co. VA, (US Marine & CS Marine). No, I dont know how to photograph a dag, doesnt do it justice.

Rare image, you can see his eagle/anchor buttons. A brief biography of George P.

Turners service is found on pages 255-256 of Ralph Donellys Confederate States Marine Corps. George Turners remarkable story is marke. D by reversal and ultimate triumph where the true metal of the man is revealed.

Briefly, Turner, a son of an old, but decaying Tidewater family accepted a USMC commission in 1856 and served aboard the USS Vincennes and USS Cyane prior to the outbreak of war. He resigned his commission on June 25, 1861 after making his way back from the Pacific via a New York bound packet boat. He then offered his services to his native Virginia and was commissioned in her Marine Corps and later the Confederate States Marine Corps.

The monotony of recruiting duty was broken by brief service in the field during the Seven Days battles when Turner served as a volunteer aide to his uncle, Major General Prince John Magruder. Afterwards, inactivity served as the backdrop for an incident of drunkenness in Richmond that cost Turner his commission.

He was dismissed from the Corps on December 11, 1862. As if to prove himself Turner made his way to Chattanooga and three weeks later enlisted as a private in Company B. 1st Kentucky Cavalry on January 1, 1863. In March 1863 his sisters Hennrietta Turners correspondence with the Secretary of War together with two personal petitions directly to President Davis resulted in a reprieve and Turner was commissioned a Captain and AAG to rank from May 2, 1863. Turner recaptured lost opportunities and impressed his superiors for by November 1863 he had been assigned to the staff of General J. Kelly (later killed) commanding a division in Joe Wheelers Calvary Corps. On June14, 1864 both Brigadier General Kelly and Major General Wheeler endorsed Captain Turners request to be reinstated in the Marine Corps or, alternatively, commissioned into the Regular Confederate Army. Records show that Turner was wounded July 5, 1862, May 4, 1864, Varnell Station, GA, and May 27, 1864 New Hope Church, GA, and General Wheelers endorsement specifically requests that he be reinstated as a reward for gallantry and valuable service. During the tumult of the Atlanta fighting Turner found time to marry Miss Anna Keller at Courtland, Alabama on July 14, 1864, then behind fluid Union lines. At the close of the war Turner surrendered and was paroled as a Lt.

Colonel serving on Wheelers staff and it is entirely likely that his Regular Army commission (in the artillery) had been confirmed when the records in Richmond were burned during the evacuation in April 1865. After the war Turner settled in Huntsville, Alabama with his wife and became a successful farmer and citizen of some prominence. In 1893 he became a founding member and First Commander of the Egbert J. Jones Post of the United Confederate Veterans in Huntsville.

Appropriately, the United Daughters of the Confederacy awarded him the Southern Cross of Honor on October 3, 1903, among the first of the awards bestowed. George Pendleton Turner died at age 68 on June 29, 1905 and rests in Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville Alabama. Anna Keller Turner, a cousin of the famous Helen Keller, outlived her husband and passed away in 1914. Our correspondence with the Huntsville Public Library, an independent researcher, and complete national Archive records are included with the three photographs. Caldwell (the former Jane Keller), a descendent of Ann Keller Turner.

The Confederate Corps of Marines by Gardner, Donald Ray; Marine Corps University U. The item "Civil War Daguerreotype US Marine, Confederate Marine Identified VERY RARE IMAGE" is in sale since Saturday, August 20, 2016. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Photographs". The seller is "civilwarinvestments" and is located in Greenville, North Carolina.

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