CDV, General Simon B. Buckner

Lieutenant General Confederate States Army

Governor of Kentucky

Extremely rare carte de visite with Louisville, Kentucky back mark

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(1823-1914) He was born at Glen Lily, his family's estate near Munfordville, Kentucky. His closest friend in Munfordville was Thomas J. Wood, who would become a Union Army general opposing Buckner at the Battles of Perryville, Ky., and at Chickamauga, Ga. during the Civil War. He graduated from West Point in the class of 1844, and later returned to the Military Academy...  

CDV, General Samuel Jones

From the personal collection of Surgeon & General Bernard John Dowling Irwin. Irwin has the distinct honor of being the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in U.S. military history by date of action, February 13, 1861

(1819-87) Born at "Woodfield," his family's plantation in Powhatan County, Va. Graduated in the West Point class of 1841. From 1846-51 Jones held the position of assistant professor of mathematics and instructor of infantry and artillery tactics at the United States Military Academy. He resigned from the U.S. Army...  

CDV, General Thomas L. Rosser

Wounded 3 times during the War Between the States

Commanded the "Laurel Brigade

From the personal collection of Surgeon & General Bernard John Dowling Irwin. Irwin has the distinct honor of being the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in U.S. military history by date of action, February 13, 1861

(1836-1910) Born on a farm called "Catalpa Hill," in Campbell County, Virginia. Appointed to West Point in 1856, at that time a 5 year course, his roommate was John Pelham. Rosser resigned on April 22, 1861, two...  

CDV, General John B. Magruder

From the personal collection of Surgeon & General Bernard John Dowling Irwin. Irwin has the distinct honor of being the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in U.S. military history by date of action, February 13, 1861

(1807-71) Known as "Prince John," a resplendently uniformed man with a theatrical manner, he attained a reputation for his social grace and etiquette. Born at Port Royal, Virginia, he graduated in the West Point class of 1830. He fought gallantry during the Mexican War, while an artillery officer, and at the Battle...  

CDV, General Simon B. Buckner

Confederate Lieutenant General

Governor of Kentucky

From the personal collection of Surgeon & General Bernard John Dowling Irwin. Irwin has the distinct honor of being the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in U.S. military history by date of action, February 13, 1861

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(1823-1914) He was born at Glen Lily, his family's estate near Munfordville, Kentucky. His closest friend in Munfordville was Thomas J. Wood, who would become a Union Army general opposing Buckner at the Battles of Perryville, Ky.,...  

CDV, General George E. Pickett

Led Pickett's Charge, at Gettysburg, on July 3, 1863

With back mark of Tanner & Vanness, Lynchburg, Va.

(1825-1875) Born in Richmond, Va., he graduated last in the West Point class of 1846, and was brevetted twice for gallantry in the Mexican War. Appointed brigadier general, January 14, 1862, he led a Confederate brigade with skill during the 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign, and was severely wounded at Gaines's Mill. Serving with General James Longstreet's 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, he was present at Fredericksburg and...  

CDV, General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson

General "Stonewall" Jackson was mortally wounded at Chancellorsville, Virginia on May 2, 1863

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(1824-1863) Born in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), he graduated in the West Point class of 1846, a class that furnished 24 general officers to the Union and Confederate armies during The War Between the States. He earned the brevets of captain and major during the Mexican War distinguishing himself at the Battle of Chapultepec. He was an instructor at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va.,...  

CDV, General Roger W. Hanson

Colonel of the 2nd Kentucky Infantry

Captured at Fort Donelson, Tennessee in February 1862

Mortally wounded on January 2, 1863 at the Battle of Murfreesboro while leading a charge which cost his brigade 400 casualties

General Hanson's dying words: "I die in a just cause, having done my duty."

From the personal collection of Surgeon & General Bernard John Dowling Irwin. Irwin has the distinct honor of being the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in U.S. military history by date of action, February 13,...  

CDV, General Sterling Price

United States Congressman from Missouri

Governor of Missouri

Wounded at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas in 1862

From the personal collection of Surgeon & General Bernard John Dowling Irwin. Irwin has the distinct honor of being the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in U.S. military history by date of action, February 13, 1861

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(1809-67) Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, near Farmville, to a moderately wealthy family of planters. His father and older brother both fought in the War of...  

CDV, General Albert Sidney Johnston

Killed at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, on April 6, 1862

From the personal collection of Surgeon & General Bernard John Dowling Irwin. Irwin has the distinct honor of being the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in U.S. military history by date of action, February 13, 1861

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(1803-62) Born in Washington, Kentucky, he was first educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, where he met and befriended fellow student Jefferson Davis, who was also born in Kentucky. Both were appointed to the...  

CDV, General John C. Breckenridge

Vice President of the United States

One of several candidates who ran for president in 1860 against Abraham Lincoln

Confederate Secretary of War

From the personal collection of Surgeon & General Bernard John Dowling Irwin. Irwin has the distinct honor of being the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in U.S. military history by date of action, February 13, 1861

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(1821-75) After attending Centre College and Transylvania University, he began practicing law in his home town of Lexington, Ky. in...  

CDV, General Stephen D. Lee

From the personal collection of Surgeon & General Bernard John Dowling Irwin. Irwin has the distinct honor of being the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in U.S. military history by date of action, February 13, 1861

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(1833-1908) Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he graduated in the West Point class of 1854. He resigned his commission in the U.S. Army on February 20, 1861, and joined the Confederate army with rank of captain, and his early war service was that of aide-de-camp to General P.G.T. Beauregard. Lee...