Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, 1808-1882 – Historic Print
![Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, 1808-1882, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/29/29a7121bfd31-L.webp)
(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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Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, 1808-1882 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, 1808-1882
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Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, who lived from 1808 to 1882, is the subject of this portrait, and his life connects the Civil War to the politics that followed it. Humphreys, a Mississippi planter, led a Confederate brigade during the war and later served as governor of Mississippi during the turbulent Reconstruction years. The record gives no date for the photograph, so it cannot be tied to a specific moment, but its place in a collection of wartime images helps show how a military commander could become a civil leader in a defeated state.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | No. 4903. Civil War Collection. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 982 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172334 |
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