Mistaken Identity and Fame Fixation
By Kurt Luther Ann Shumard, Senior Curator of Photographs at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, reached out to me with a question about a possible misidentification. A glass plate negative
Tag: Civil War military biography
“One of Nature’s Truest Noblemen” in Three Wars
By Joe Bauman Few soldiers served in the major armed conflicts of 1812, Mexico, and the Civil War. The most notable name is Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, who commanded the