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- GLC#
- GLC05111.01.0641-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1861-1862 ca.
- Title
- Brig. Gen. Benton, full length standing portrait [salt print] [cabinet card]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 photograph Height: 16.5 cm, Width: 10.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Benton is wearing epaulets and holds his sword in front of him with both hands. His hat rests on a table to the left and has the infantry horn insignia on it. The upper corners of the the image have been rounded to create an arch at the top. Inscription on verso: "Brig. Gen. Benton." From Brady Archives, mounted on cabinet card mounts just before or during early 1862.
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