(CIVIL WAR NEW YORK) Frey Carl K; colorist Portrait of Jame

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(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) Frey, Carl K.; colorist. Portrait of James McQuade, colonel of the 14th New York. Hand-colored photograph, 16 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches; 2-inch closed tear in lower left. In original gilt plaster frame, moderate wear; not examined outside of frame. Np, undated

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James McQuade (1829-1885) volunteered as colonel of the 14th New York Infantry at the outset of the war. He commanded his whole brigade at the Battle of Malvern Hill in 1862, but malaria prevented him from pursuing a promotion, and he left the army in 1863. He was brevetted as a Brigadier General after the war, and later served as mayor of his native Utica, NY. This wartime portrait of McQuade was taken by Matthew Brady (see an engraving in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume II, pages xiv and 421).
Utica photographer Carl K. Frey (1858-1937) presumably created this oversized print and did the hand-coloring, perhaps in commemoration of McQuade's death; his signature appears in the lower right.