Capt. Jonathan Lee Knight, 1837 - 1915 Search this
Sitter:
George Alexander Forsyth, 7 Nov 1837 - 12 Sep 1915 Search this
Morris Joseph Asch, 04 Jul 1833 - 05 Oct 1902 Search this
Michael Vincent Sheridan, 24 May 1840 - 21 Feb 1918 Search this
George Armstrong Custer, 5 Dec 1839 - 25 Jun 1876 Search this
Philip Henry Sheridan, 6 Mar 1831 - 5 Aug 1888 Search this
Nelson Bowman Sweitzer, 12 Dec 1828 - 07 Mar 1898 Search this
James William Forsyth, 08 Aug 1834 - 24 Oct 1906 Search this
Medium:
Albumen silver print
Dimensions:
Image/Sheet: 22.4 × 29.2 cm (8 13/16 × 11 1/2")
Mount: 27.7 × 34.6 cm (10 7/8 × 13 5/8")
Mat: 40.6 × 55.9 cm (16 × 22")
Type:
Photograph
Date:
1872
Exhibition Label:
Philip H. Sheridan (1831–1888) was a lifelong soldier from his West Point graduation in 1853 until just before his death. His leadership capabilities came to the fore in the last year of the Civil War, when he took command of the Union cavalry in Virginia and made it an effective fighting arm of the U.S. Army. With the return of peace, Sheridan was assigned commands in Texas, patrolling the border with Mexico, and in Louisiana, enforcing Reconstruction policies that protected voting rights, especially for blacks. The Indian Wars in the West occupied Sheridan for most of the 1870s, especially the Great Sioux War of 1876–77, in which George A. Custer and some 200 cavalrymen were killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Custer is seen in this photograph—taken in Topeka, Kansas, in 1872—wearing a fur-trimmed coat and sitting beside Sheridan.