[Stevensburg, Va. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, 3d Division, Cavalry Corps, with ladies and staff members on the porch of headquarters]

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GLC#
GLC05111.01.0173-View header record
Type
Images
Date
March 1864
Title
[Stevensburg, Va. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, 3d Division, Cavalry Corps, with ladies and staff members on the porch of headquarters]
Place Written
Stevensburg, Virginia
Pagination
1 albumen print Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 17.1 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

A print of a photograph of Major General H. Judson Kilpatrick, with wife, another woman, and seven members of his staff. A personalized flag [3rd Div., Cavalry Corps] displayed on the porch has the Latin word "Tuebor" ["I Will Defend"] painted above an ealge clinching an United States flag in the center of a large white circle. The flag has six red and six white horizontal stripes and is bordered with gold braiding. Painted in the stripes are the names and dates of battles. The practice of creating personalized flags was quite common during the war. Other union soldiers are visible in the window on the left side of the photograph. Kilpatrick, an experienced Cavalry commander and raider, was also a famous womanizer. His men called him "Kill-Cavalry" for the way he exhausted and wasted them and their horses. Incribed onto the photograph is "Genl Kilpatrick & staff, 1864." At the time of this picture, the Dahlgren Affair was occuring for whick Kilpatrick would take most of the blame and would be transfefred to the western theater. On the verso: "XI" "429," "224."

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