Sale 2473 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, April 12, 2018

74 c   (CIVIL WAR—PHOTOGRAPHS.) [Brady, Mathew; studio of.] Sherman and his generals. Albumen photograph, 12 1 / 4 x 16 inches, on original plain mount; moderate dampstaining. [Washington, 1865] [1,000/1,500] A dramatic large-format group portrait of Sherman and his top generals. The Smithsonian reports that Brady arranged the shoot shortly after the conclusion of the war, just before the officers all dispersed from Washington. Shown left to right are Oliver O. Howard, John A. Logan, William Babcock Hazen, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jefferson C. Davis, Henry Warner Slocum, and Joseph A. Mower.