Heading: (Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson)
Author:
Title: Hugh Judson Kilpatrick - signed carte-de-visite photograph from negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery
Place Published: New York
Publisher:E. & H.T. Anthony
Date Published: No date
Description:

Albumen photograph CDV. 10.3x6 cm (4x2¼"); in Optium Museum Acrylic glass frame: 12.5x8.3 cm (5x3¼").

Signed by Kilpatrick in lower margin. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, achieving the rank of brevet major general. He was later the United States Minister to Chile and an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. Nicknamed "Kilcavalry" (or "Kill-Cavalry") for using tactics in battle that were considered as recklessly disregarding the lives of soldiers under his command. Kilpatrick was both praised for the victories he achieved, and despised by southerners whose homes and towns he devastated. Mathew B. Brady was one of the earliest photographers in American history, best known for his scenes of the Civil War. He studied under inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, among other public figures

Slight silvering in a few spots.