William Mackall Chief of Staff à C.S.A. – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with William Mackall Chief of Staff à C.S.A., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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William Mackall Chief of Staff à C.S.A.
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The sitter here is William Mackall, identified by the caption as chief of staff to the Confederate States Army, a role he held after resigning his U.S. Army commission to join the Confederacy in 1861. Because the record dates the negative to 1860, the picture was probably made before he took that post, so the title reflects his later career rather than the moment of the exposure. The portrait was taken with the wet collodion process on a glass plate, which required the photographer to coat, expose, and develop the plate within a few minutes. The negative is attributed to David B. Woodbury, a photographer who worked in Washington and died in 1866.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). Title from Civil War caption books. · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 3,495 × 5,000 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51680 |
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