Civil War Portraits—Leaders, Influencers, and the Incidentally Important #006
George Lucas Hartsuff
George Lucas Hartsuff (May 28, 1830 – May 16, 1874) was an American soldier, born at Tyre, New York. He graduated at West Point in 1852, graduating 19th out of 43 in his class. He served on the frontier and in Florida, where, during a fight with the Seminole Indians near Fort Myers in December 1855, he received a wound which eventually caused his death. Hartsuff survived the wreck of the steamer Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan on September 8, 1860.
On March 22, 1861, Hartsuff was appointed Assistant Adjutant General with the brevet rank of captain, assigned to the Department of Florida on April 13. (Read more at Wikipedia)
Title: Brigadier General George Lucas Hartsuff of Regular Army Infantry Regiment and U.S. Volunteers Infantry Regiment in uniform / From photographic negative by Brady.
Creator(s): Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896, photographer
Date Created/Published: New York : E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, [between 1861 and 1865]
Medium: 1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 101 x 61 mm (carte de visite format)
Summary: Photograph shows identified soldier, who was wounded at Antietam, Maryland.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-71724 (digital file from original, front) LC-DIG-ppmsca-71725 (digital file from original, back)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: LOT 15158-1, no. 130 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes:
- Title devised by Library staff.
- Notation on recto: “Hartsuff.”
- Printed on verso: “From photographic negative by Brady.”
- Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2020; (D076)
- Purchased from: Excelsior Brigade, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia, April 2020.
- Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).