Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AXTZm, 300 DPI, JPEG, Original Photograph, .4 Mb

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Image ID: AXTZ

Credit:

unknown photographer
Date:

1869.08
Equipment:

chair; umbrella; walking stick
Locations & Lines:

White Sulphur Springs VA; Virginia
Military Units:

Army of Northern Virginia; CS Army
Persons:

Beauregard (Pierre G. T.); Blacque (Edouard); Brent (Joseph L.); Conner (James); Corcoran (William W.); Gary (Martin W.); Lawton (Alexander R.); Lee (Robert E.); Lilley (Robert D.); Lyons (James); Magruder (John B.); Peabody (George); Wise (Henry A.)
Sources:

Heritage Auctions

Heritage Auctions says: General Lee and his Confederate officers in their first meeting since Appomattox, taken at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in August 1869, where they met to discuss “the orphaned children of the Lost Cause”. This is the only from life photograph of Lee with his Generals in existence, during the war or after. Left to right standing: General James Conner, General Martin Witherspoon Gary, General John B. Magruder, General Robert D. Lilley, General P. G. T. Beauregard, General Alexander Lawton, General Henry A. Wise, General Joseph Lancaster Brent Left to right seated: Blacque Bey (Turkish Minister to the United States), General Robert E. Lee, Philanthropist George Peabody, Philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran, James Lyons (Virginia)

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