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circa 1865

Vannerson, Julian, 1827-?

Photograph

Title: [unknown Confederate general]

Carte de visite of an unknown Confederate general with beard. Stars around collar of uniform. With pen strokes added to his beard and hair. Pencil note on back (cropped), "This is a very indifferent picture -- a poor trait of the original as the artist in attempting to improve it has spoiled it completely. I send it however as I have no other." Possibly the handwriting of Mary C. Lee.

GLC01442.18

1864

Vannerson, Julian, 1827-?

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of Robert E. Lee]

Signed by Lee. Vannerson portrait taken for Edward V. Valentine, a Virginia sculptor studying in Berlin, to make a statue of Lee to sell for the benefit of the Confederate States of America in Liverpool, UK. A copy went through the blockade. Thought to have been signed for a relative or close friend.

GLC00100

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