including four Civil War officers and two immediate post-war officers of the USS Ticonderoga, with a study of Admiral Farragut?s statue. First, a Brady view of the imposing Admiral Porter followed by Lieutenant William ?Bull? Nelson who was the only naval officer to serve simultaneously as Major General, USV, shot and killed at the Galt House in Louisville by Brigadier General Jefferson Davis September 29, 1862 after a scandalous confrontation. A Brady view of retired Commodore William D. Salter in civilian clothes who was the last surviving officer to have participated in the epic encounter between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812. An unidentified junior officer by David Ford, Cairo, Illinois serving with the brown water flotilla based there. The two Ticonderoga officers were photographed at Trieste in the Adriatic during the vessel?s Mediterranean deployment in 1866. One is identified in pencil as Surgeon Francis M. Gunnell who joined the navy in 1849 and later became Fleet Surgeon-General in 1884, and an unidentified gentleman in civilian dress with E. & H.T. Anthony backmark from a Brady negative and a cdv of a lady with inked inscription on reverse identifying her as the wife of a Lt. Provenance: Ex James E. Sanders Collection Condition: Porter cdv with pinholes in upper mount, Salter and Cairo officer with handling wear, G, the others VG.
including four Civil War officers and two immediate post-war officers of the USS Ticonderoga, with a study of Admiral Farragut?s statue. First, a Brady view of the imposing Admiral Porter followed by Lieutenant William ?Bull? Nelson who was the only naval officer to serve simultaneously as Major General, USV, shot and killed at the Galt House in Louisville by Brigadier General Jefferson Davis September 29, 1862 after a scandalous confrontation. A Brady view of retired Commodore William D. Salter in civilian clothes who was the last surviving officer to have participated in the epic encounter between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812. An unidentified junior officer by David Ford, Cairo, Illinois serving with the brown water flotilla based there. The two Ticonderoga officers were photographed at Trieste in the Adriatic during the vessel?s Mediterranean deployment in 1866. One is identified in pencil as Surgeon Francis M. Gunnell who joined the navy in 1849 and later became Fleet Surgeon-General in 1884, and an unidentified gentleman in civilian dress with E. & H.T. Anthony backmark from a Brady negative and a cdv of a lady with inked inscription on reverse identifying her as the wife of a Lt. Provenance: Ex James E. Sanders Collection Condition: Porter cdv with pinholes in upper mount, Salter and Cairo officer with handling wear, G, the others VG.
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