Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture #001 Title: [Unidentified cadet in Virginia Military Institute uniform] Date Created/Published: 1845. Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate daguerreotype ; 9.4 x 8.1 cm (case) Summary: Portrait of a young man who, in later years, might have fought in the Civil War as a Confederate soldier. The initials VMI, visible on [...]