An Antebellum Militia Officer Daguerreotype
This officer holds a Model 1834 general officer’s sword, likely produced by the Ames Manufacturing Company, judging by its pommel and mounts. He wears narrow sleeves associated with Mexican War–era
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Representative Portrait of the Militia Culture Bridging Two Wars
This clean-shaven officer, in gold trim, with a staff-pattern buckle and a fashionable eagle-head sword, is representative of the militia culture in the antebellum United States. Between the Treaty of