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(CIVIL WAR.) SCOTT, WINFIELD. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "This card is respectfully / inscribed to / Miss Van Horn-- / the friend of my family, / by her friend-- Winfield Scott / 1862," carte-de-visite portrait by Charles D. Fredricks, showing the elderly General seated in uniform and grasping his sword. Inscribed on the verso. Photographer's full imprint on verso. Approximately 3 1/2x2 1/4 inches (image), approximately 4x2 1/2 inches overall. Np, 1862
Scott (1786-1866) served in the War of 1812, commanded the Southern theater during the Mexican War, was promoted to Lieutenant General in 1855--the first officer to attain that rank since George Washington--named General-in-Chief of the Union army at the start of the Civil War, and devised the "Anaconda Plan" to defeat Confederate forces.
