Rare! CIVIL War Union Gettysburg Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum 1862 Brady CDV Photo

  
CIVIL WAR UNION GETTYSBURG MAJ. CIVIL WAR UNION GETTYSBURG MAJOR GENERAL HENRY W. 1894, was a Union general during the American Civil War and later served in the United States House of Representatives from New York. During the war, he was one of the youngest major generals in the Army and fought numerous major battles in the Eastern Theater and in Georgia and the Carolinas. While commanding a regiment, a brigade, a division, and a corps in the Army of the Potomac, he saw action at First Bull Run, the Peninsula Campaign, Harpers Ferry, South Mountain, Antietam, and Chancellorsville. At Gettysburg, he was the senior Union General in the Field, under Gen. During the battle, he held the Union right from Culp's Hill to across the Baltimore Pike.

His successful defense of Culp's Hill was crucial to the Union victory at Gettysburg. PERIOD ID'd ON THE TOP REVERSE.

SHARP FOCUS AND VERY GOOD CONTRAST. TWO METALLIC GOLD RULE LINE BORDERS. DIMENSIONS: W 2 3/8" x H 3 15/16". PHOTOGRAPHER IMPRINT ON THE REVERSE. THIS IS NOT A COPY OR REPRODUCTION.