Portrait of Maj. Gen. Silas Casey officer of the Federal Army – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Portrait of Maj. Gen. Silas Casey officer of the Federal Army, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Portrait of Maj. Gen. Silas Casey officer of the Federal Army
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A bearded, formally posed Silas Casey, shown in an officer's uniform, was photographed in 1860, a year before the Civil War began. The picture was made as a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required photographers to coat and expose plates while they were still wet, and it was published by the New York firm E. & H.T. Anthony, one of the leading suppliers of photographs of military and public figures. Casey went on to command a division in the Union army's Peninsula Campaign in 1862, and his infantry drill manual was widely used during the war. Seen today, the portrait shows a career soldier on the eve of a conflict that would soon make his name more widely known.
| Created / published | 1860 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0895 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Casey Silas. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 910 × 1,376 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46420 |
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